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originally posted by: Southern Guardian
We've already learned that the GOP plans to increase taxes for graduate students by almost 400%. We also know that Trumps advisors can't even guarantee the middle class won't see tax increases.. The evidence is piling up that the lower classes are going to be screwed. This is just another revelation.
The House GOP tax bill would scrap that educator deduction entirely.
The Senate GOP tax plan would double it to $500.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
originally posted by: pavil
originally posted by: DanteGaland
a reply to: Edumakated
Really? Where are YOU from?
Please do give some examples...?
Yeah..teachers suck!!!
I do taxes for quite a few teachers and retired teachers. I've yet to meet a poor retired teacher. I have one client who makes more in retirement than they did working. Teachers for the most part have excellent retirement packages.
My friend is a public teacher.
Has 401k, NO PENSION.
So, your argument is invalid.
Some group of people no matter how small is hurt by this policy - therefore the whole plan is bad.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
originally posted by: pavil
originally posted by: DanteGaland
a reply to: Edumakated
Really? Where are YOU from?
Please do give some examples...?
Yeah..teachers suck!!!
I do taxes for quite a few teachers and retired teachers. I've yet to meet a poor retired teacher. I have one client who makes more in retirement than they did working. Teachers for the most part have excellent retirement packages.
My friend is a public teacher.
Has 401k, NO PENSION.
So, your argument is invalid.
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
a reply to: proximo
Basically you’re argument is “well only a small percent will be affected, so who cares”...
But that is antithetical to catering to the needs of everyone.
Which is what the Government should be doing.
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
a reply to: pavil
Why single out a single occupation for it?
Less then 2.5% of the workforce is teachers.
I fully understand your point, pavil.
But alongside military and emergency services...
Can you name a more important workforce in the civilised world?
I’m hard pressed to think of one.
originally posted by: Willtell
originally posted by: pavil
originally posted by: DanteGaland
a reply to: Edumakated
Really? Where are YOU from?
Please do give some examples...?
Yeah..teachers suck!!!
I do taxes for quite a few teachers and retired teachers. I've yet to meet a poor retired teacher. I have one client who makes more in retirement than they did working. Teachers for the most part have excellent retirement packages.
That is if you work 30 years
Also, those packages are being attacked by GOP governors
Those other two don't get any special tax breaks...
So a benefit that only affects 2.5% of the workforce is catering to the needs of everyone? Just trying to follow along.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
a reply to: Hazardous1408
It's USUALLY the uneducated who dont' value teachers.
They're not intelligent enough to understand the value, they don't see the "point".
originally posted by: DanteGaland
a reply to: Hazardous1408
It's USUALLY the uneducated who dont' value teachers.
They're not intelligent enough to understand the value, they don't see the "point".
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
a reply to: pavil
Those other two don't get any special tax breaks...
They also don’t have to pay out of their own pocket for equipment needed to do their jobs.
So a benefit that only affects 2.5% of the workforce is catering to the needs of everyone? Just trying to follow along.
That’s a loaded question.
Especially considering other professions that make up the rest of society aren’t usually paying out of their own pocket.
It’s highly likely a large fraction of the other 97.5% do not need this sort of deduction.
& if this passes, there will be no “benefit” to speak of...
But considering it’s there now so teachers who pay out of their own pocket can deduct, I don’t see how that can be a bad thing.
Unless you think teachers should be buying supplies and textbooks etc.
But to me that seems like a ridiculous proposition.
originally posted by: pavil
Teachers should not have to pay out of pocket for supplies to run an effective class.