NC’s Education Boss Suggests New Teacher Perk: State Income Tax Exemption
23rd June 2013
June Atkinson, North Carolina’s superintendent of public instruction, recommended the unusual tax policy on Monday, reports The Charlotte Observer. The Democrat indicated that she would not have advocated such a teacher tax cut if teachers would instead receive a salary increase next year.
No recognition of the fact that teachers are getting more and more pay for increasingly worse and worse results.
No surprises that this was initiated by a Democrat — another payoff for one of their core constituencies, teachers and especially teachers’ unions.
And if this trick works, they’ll show you another one — perhaps state government employees (most of whom are unionized as well these days). And on, and on, and on, until the only people paying taxes are Republicans in the private sector, who will be expected to subsidize the entire Welfare State.
June 23rd, 2013 at 08:47
And to think the Founding Fathers started an eight-year war over unfair taxes.
June 23rd, 2013 at 09:02
On most occasions I would simply laugh or ridicule the bureacrat who proposed such a thing. In this case I hope the legislature grants the teachers exemption from the income tax, and I hope the exemption spreads to all government workers. I cannot easily imagine a policy better designed to reach my goals than to have public servants exempted from the taxes which they control.
In a civilized society, Atkinson would be fired, her teaching certificate revoked, and banned for life from any government position. In a just society, impeached and removed. In our society….
How long would pass until the subjects (formerly citizens) so burned with hatred that they would rise to otherthrow their oppressors? I even have a name for this revolt: the American Revolution. I want to live long enough see the head of Jill Atkinson raised from the basket beneath the guillotine.