Reply #109: What, teachers shouldn't get the same periodic raises that workers in the private secotr enjoy?

[MadHound]

First of all, your ignorance of teacher's pay scales is showing. They don't get annual raises, but rather raises based on years of experience, amount of education they have, and the crucial factor, whether or not there is money in the budget for those raises.

And those budgets, well they are decided by tax revenues, and are at the mercy of a super majority of voters. What other profession do you know of that has its salaries put to the whim of the voter in a vote that can be blocked by a minority of the voting public?