| I hate this reasoning. You see, my dad paid taxes. He was a government employee so it was spelled out in his contract what he was paying for. Pension. Both a yearly pension (meaning extra days off), and an inflation-adjusted elderly pension (and a whole bunch of other things). Needless to say, the government never paid either of those things. The days in a year were taken away. Not with a new contract. Not with new negotiations. It was just a new law (not even a voted-on law, just a ministerial note). He lost about 2 years of pension outright this way, and his pension was never inflation-adjusted (first they delayed the adjustments, then they "skipped some", then they canceled it). That means that after this year, 6 years into his pension, he is now on the minimum possible pension. This is explicitly what the government promised would never happen. Of course, he never gets to take back the decades of work he put in to not get in this situation. Worse than that, the government has actually invited him to come back because there's a teacher shortage ... So now he gets exactly the same pension as someone who never worked a day in their life. Which the government is currently promising will never happen. Please explain to me why I would pay taxes to a state that has even less intention to abide by the deal they're presenting than it did when my dad signed those contracts and worked 40+ years as a teacher? And if I go somewhere else and pay NO taxes at all, ever, to the state, I can come back when I'm 65 and get exactly the same pension. Social justice, REALITY: 1) we'll lie to you so you work for us 2) we are the government, so we use the law to change the meaning of your contract AFTER you put in the work 3) we'll lie about what we're doing every step of the way 4) and after that ... and people refuse to work for us, they'll "invite" you back to DO MORE WORK ... 5) IF he still had more than the minimum pension, doing this "voluntary" extra work would be the only way he could maintain an above-minimum pension. This is still not fixing the situation. 6) I'm willing to bet step 6 is making the pension drop below the minimum unless he goes back to work. If you calculate what it would take to get enough teachers, it's roughly double what they're paying now. There is no chance in hell the government will do that, so they'll lie and cheat somewhere else, and this seems to me an obvious thing to do (and is "being talked about") You can keep your social justice, thanks. I'll be somewhere else. Clearly following the rules of social justice pays EXACTLY the same as ... not doing anything at all (plus they don't "invite" you back after 65 to do more work, nor do they cut your pension below minimum ...) |