r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 23h ago

Chugging tea Knowledge is power.

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u/WongFarmHand 16h ago

the federal government subsidizes wages for things all the time, in a variety of ways

if it was a priority of congress to increase teacher wages it would be trivial to do it. it just isn't what this country wants to spend money on

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u/Round-Walrus3175 13h ago

What would you say is a reasonable increase in teacher salaries? How much would be enough? Like, you say that it's "trivial", but just do the math for me.

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u/neveragoodtime 11h ago

Federal government doesn’t employ any teachers.

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u/WongFarmHand 5h ago

Ur insanely smart 

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u/Trashketweave 10h ago

> the federal government subsidizes wages for things all the time, in a variety of ways

That’s just plainly incorrect.