Most of education funding locally come from property tax, the only taxes your employer is splitting with you is social security. Entitlements are coming out of your pocket, businesses just raise prices to offset tax liability.

Originally Posted By: Atoler
Originally Posted By: Beer Belly
$15/hr = 31k/yr

$10k/yr just to educate kids (+ infrastructure, etc)

How much of that $31k is being paid in state taxes, including what you are paying?

Lets say that their wives work and they make $50k together and they pay 20% state taxes = 10k/yr

If they have 1 kid/employee on average then you are taking money from every person in the state just for educating their family.

Just another perspective. You get a good employee and everyone else in the state pays for that employee.






Huh? I really didn't follow you here? If you're saying that a couple paying $10k/yr in taxes is actually not covering the cost of a single child's education, that's false. Employers contribute almost the same amount per employee , so that's actually 20k a year taken from their pay.