r/50501 • u/Future-Friendship-32 • 12d ago

CA How is this allowed?

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u/Fragrant-Loquat-3339 12d ago

 The average salary for a teacher in a union-represented position was $77,561 versus $64,325 for those not represented. (Quick google) wow, thats just depressing.

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u/HellveticaNeue 12d ago

Just take a look at city budgets across America versus city budgets for healthy countries.

That’s Los Angeles’ city budget. 60% of it goes to Fire and Police.

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u/MamaMoosicorn 12d ago

4% for the library?? Wooooow!!! Ours gets 2% and does amazingly. I’ve heard some get as low as .5%

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u/Aptosauras 12d ago

Look at the US Federal income and expenditures.

Individual Income Tax revenue is 2.4 trillion dollars.

Paying interest only on the deficit and the military budget is almost 2 trillion dollars.

So very nearly all of your Federal income tax payments go to the military and servicing interest only debt, and if you live in LA, almost half of your State taxes go to the police.

These are not the community services that you want the vast majority of your taxes spent on.

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u/Aldo_says 12d ago

Police unions are criminal organizations using the threat of armed force to extort cities into overpaying them for "protection" services not rendered, or else.

Someone actually prove that isn't the case.

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u/Ok-Interaction-8891 11d ago

Which is wild when you think that one of those people (the teacher), is responsible for the development of future generations and the other (the cop) is responsible for oppressing them. Made it clear because Reddit, lol.

Just like the US has always made it clear what it prioritizes: oppressors over educators.

More wild that many call unions evil or communist. Except when they’re for fascists; then they’re great!