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Originally Posted by Minte
$52k is the average salary. The *fringe benefit* package averages $35k. The real cost is in the $70-80k range for teachers in Wisconsin. This is for a 9 month a year position.which in the private sector is considered part time.
The fact remains. Public workers retire at to young of an age. There are to many of them drawing from a system that can not sustain it.
You talk about raising capital gains tax. You obviously don't run a company. The state of WI does not offer any deals to corporations on taxable income. A city can defer property taxes for a period of time to entice a business to build in their community. There are various low interest loans available to build factories with. Those are loans. If you are a minority you can qualify for a few grants. Those are rare.
The only solution for the state is to reduce spending on every level. Raising taxes in a state that historically is one of the highest taxed states in the US will not bring business our way. In the last 8 years WI has lost 6 major corporations to states with lower taxes and wages.
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No... I said cut capital gains tax to nothing, if they invest the money. History has already proven this works. Then you can stop giving retarded tax breaks at the city/state, property, ect level and the state actually collect the money from the services the corps are using.
I don't run a company in WI, that is correct.. the companies I do have are the b.s. types of companies we all have here. None of which reach the level of business that would ever quality for a capital gains tax break, none of us have the billions it takes to make it a factor - none of us are in that league.
Every State would instantly profit simply by standing up to Insurance companies, then stopping the crazy ass bleeding of tax dollars to stupid projects that every city/state has, blowing tax dollars on useless projects rather than the last 30 years rebuilding the infrastructure of our Cities, Communities and Transportation.
Then stopping States from privately investing in Corporations just to show massive favoritism to that Corporation and allow them to bully the free market in those states, forcing those Companies that did hire people to leave.
Oh yeah... I can keep going for hours on the damage State leaders have caused the people of this Country. And it sickens me to hear another Americans blaming Americans - when no working american, ever, created the problem we have today - our leaders did by letting corporations suck us all dry.
The biggest business in our Industry, our entire Industry added together, doesn't play at this level, at any point. The elite class are so far past the super wealthy in our nation, it's not even funny. All of us, from Bill Gates down are nothing more than working class, broke bitches to these people.
And you're about to feed them a shit ton more of our tax dollars.