Cops and Teachers? THEY Don't Pay Taxes!

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Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robin Vos lets us all know what he thinks of those taxpaying Wisconsin citizens who work in the public sector:

The reality is they haven’t had to pay for these things, they’re upset about doing it now, and the taxpayers are the ones who definitely understand this because they get it, they’ve been doing this in the

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[_wanderer_]

Somewhat off-topic, but tangential to what's been going on:

What people fail to discuss when they claim that public sector employees get more benefits than private sector ones is that maybe these people do a job that is more important and thus deserve more benefits. Maybe this is not widely believed in our profit-obsessed culture, but each individual teacher and policeman has more responsibility than the average person in the private sector and should therefore receive more compensation, assuming equal levels of training and experience

[_wanderer_]

So in your ideal world, the children of the poor would only have access to education pending the approval of some wealthy benefactor?

[gunslnger]

No, that's not the only alternative.

[_wanderer_]

* I mean to say people that enjoy courts and national defense do not believe that freedom is the only important thing, either explicitly or implicitly.