Apart from anything else, why should teachers have to buy the tools to do their job?
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Because for decades teaching has been marketed as ‘a calling’ not a job. People say things like, ‘teachers do what they have to’ or ‘no one goes into teaching for the money’ or ‘you might be the only person in some of these kids lives that care for them.’ These kind of phrases allow higher ups to continually slash teaching budgets while convincing teachers that they must fill the shortfall because of they don’t, who will? It’s bullshit.
People are in for a rude awakening after republicans get rid of public schools. You think buying your own supplies is expensive — wait until you get the bill for going to private school.
"Oh, you can't afford to send your child to school? Well the coal mines are always hiring if you need to get them out of the house."
Soon, an editorial headline:
Americans' bills are piling up; could chattel children be the answer?
See also: Republicans have repealed child labor laws, but is that really a bad thing?
It's because Republicans really like the unwashed masses they're easier to manipulate.
Don't worry, we'll all be too busy reacting to actually take the time to reflect and learn something.
Much like nurses in the U.K., and their current pay battles. There are even former nurses saying “they should do it for the love of the job”.
They shouldn't. Education is critically and routinely underfunded because dumb people vote conservative.
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rich neighborhoods often pay $200+ per student per year for supplies.
poor neighborhoods just get by without supplies
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This is just plain incorrect.
The law doesn't allow CEOs to write off yachts.
Whether or not regulators investigate them is another matter.
That's why they don't own the yachts, but they own the charter companies that run the yachts.
Can't they just buy in the name of a company, which would be a 'business expense', which is kind of a write off?
They would have to justify how it is a part of the companies operations. In theory at least.
So a private jet to fly your execs to business meets? Ok.
A yacht? Maybe for entertaining customers? I don't know about the US, but here in Australia entertainment expenses are written off at a lower rate than other business expenses.
A yacht can have meeting rooms, you can receive clients in these meeting rooms for business purposes, making it therefore a business expense.
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It doesn't work like that. Expenses need to be "necessarily incurred in the course of producing income". Just be cause a company pays for something doesn't make it tax deductible.
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The system working as intended
Yup, not a bug, a feature.
The productive class vs the parasite class.
Teachers shouldn’t have to buy their own supplies out of pocket to begin with.
Teachers shouldn't be paying for teaching supplies in the first place.
I had a boss once who avoided paying taxes on his 49' sailing yacht by "donating" it to his church. It was then technically owned by the church (so no taxes, either transfer or property) but he still used it exclusively.
You can probably report that to the IRS right now.
Religious country
If I were a teacher, I would not buy school supplies with my own money.
The unfortunate part is that then kids in your class would be missing out on school supplies. It's not right for teachers to use their own money for school supplies though.
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Well, have a party or three with businesses clients on the yacht and you can write that off. However, I think the vast majority of people have their yachts registered under shell corporations, and that opens up a lot of opportunities for writeoffs.
We need to normalize burning them.
That makes sense. Cause further damage to the ecosystem in the waters and give the enemy ammunition towards painting real change makers as dangerous or destructive
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That makes sense. Cause further damage to the ecosystem in the waters and give the enemy ammunition towards painting real change makers as dangerous or destructive
It would still be a net positive for the environment tbh
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super yachts need a hole drilled
Scuba gear and a drill
Scuba diver and sailor here. Above a certain size, boats have watertight bulkheads and pumps to remove water, like fire hose levels of water. May I suggest a thermal lance? Works great underwater, cuts through metal better than a drill, and can cut a slice long enough to cut past multiple bulkheads.