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In reply to the discussion: I was 19 years old when Ronald Reagan was first elected... [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)So a teacher or principal with 35 years experience who may have started with a salary of $14,000/yr and worked their way up through the system getting post-secondary degrees, Union-negotiated COLA increases, and promotions, is supposed to be in your fantasy "everyone must be poor" world? And this from the same folks who lament about "wage stagnation"???
I suppose this gives those with that perspective a raison d'etre, in essence, tossing grenades from the sidelines because it's fashionable.
And as a FYI - the "Make Work Pay" credit was done under ARRA (the "stimulus" and none of those actions put in there to "stimulate" the economy in the middle of the crash, was expected to be permanent although Lord knows folks tried to keep some of the stimulus in place, but Congress wouldn't allow it. And similar efforts included the temporary 2% decrease in the SS payroll tax.
This is why extreme positions argued in a pretzel-twisted way, means that people eventually stop paying attention to such nonsense.
Keep grasping at those straws.