How in the world is paying teachers more money a bad thing? They're really, really underpaid as it is. As in, they make hardly more than minimum wage in many situations. Qualified people are scared off from from becoming teachers because it's so easy to take their degrees and expertise and earn more money virtually anywhere else. So will paying teachers more improve education? Perhaps not directly, but it's a big step in right direction.
Are you serious? Maybe teaching else where is bad, but in WI, the more you teach, the more money you have a chance to make. My Biology teacher, who had been teaching in the district for a decent amount of time, was making 60,000 dollars for a 9 month period. In the regular day, that teacher had 2 off hours, one for a study hall, one for lunch. So that means he taugh for approximately 6 hours. Then he used those other two hours to correct things. In fact, most teachers use scantron now for tests, so they don't even have to correct those. They also get days off for Winter Break, Spring Break, and any other day the students get off.
Sure I think teachers should get paid more, but how is that going to improve our system? The teachers that are there are going to teach good regardless of their pay.
$250,000 for families, $200,000 for individuals. Biden was right to say that people making $150,000 will get a tax cut, he did not say "over $150,000 will get an increase"
Not to mention Obama was heard saying 75,000 dollars recently. And I'm sorry but, most small businesses make around 250,000. For example, my friend's family owns a landscaping company in the area of where I live. The company takes care of the surrounding cities, to a max population of about 500,000. There are other competitors to this company, and they have a good chunk of employees under him. But they are still considered by no means a big business. In this tax cut plan, he would have his taxes raised. Meaning he'd have to compensate that tax raise, with a raise in services. Which would mean those who want landscaping would have to pay more, which means they'd be getting screwed as well.
This is going to happen to almost every company. If you think that tax cuts to the middle class are going to improve this economy, you're dreaming. These companies are going to raise prices, which mean all the money you got from your tax cut, is going to go back to them.
The increase in the capital gains tax would be roughly 5%, and again only affect the above groups.
I am 18, and Im starting to invest this year. I ony have so much money i can spend, but now Im going to lose another 5 bucks for every 100 bucks that I spend. Im not a huge fan of that, why should I lose more. And what about those who use the market as a retirement plan? If they sell their stocks for their money for retirement, and have 100,000 dollars saved up, that's an additonal 5,000 that they lose plus the original rate.
Blaming a single organization (or party) is ridiculous. It was a combination of the federal reserve, congress, both Clinton and Bush's administration, home buyers, mortgate brokers, and others.
I find that slightly ironic. Now we don't put the full blame on the presidency? But when everything else goes wrong, we can? When prices were high, who got the blame for it? The Bush Administration. But when they went down, it was because our economy was bad. You do realize that the stock market hit almost a career high during the Bush Administration, yet he got no credit for that, but as soon as it went down, the economy was blamed on them. The democrats were the ones defending Fannie May, up until they crashed. Sure it's really the greedy banks who let them have loans, fully knowing they couldn't pay, but if it wasn't for the bill that gave home owners an easier down payment, we wouldn't be in this crisis.
