Why Is This Facebook Graphic Going Viral?

[Playinghardball]

Source: MoveOn.org

[dkf]

1. Why is there a confusion in state vs federal employees and taxes?

This makes no sense.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

3. You make no sense.

[dkf]

8. The 3% increase in taxes is a federal proposal. Teachers are having their salaries cut at the state

Level.

Those are two different bodies. The Feds don't dictate how the states solve their budget crises.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. You don't get the general idea behind the message.

More's the pity.

[dkf]

13. I get the general message but it's not a practical argument.

Why rally people to waste their time and effort when you could be doing something that actually gets funding for teachers if that is what you want.

Ugh this sort of pointless stuff drives me nuts unless the whole exercise is to drive resentment for rich people. Then it makes sense.

[girl gone mad]

11. You've never heard of revenue sharing?

[dkf]

14. We got rid of it.

Personally I'd prefer to pay less federal taxes and more state taxes. I see more value in what my state does than in some of what the Feds have done.

More of my state taxes do go towards education.

[girl gone mad]

16. Got rid of it?

[Iggo]

6. Millionaires are federal employees?

Huh, wha...?

[dkf]

10. Teachers are state/local employees. Each state finds their own way of funding them

The 3% increase in taxes is a federal proposal.

People should be protesting their own states tax structure or real estate taxes. That is where teachers salaries come from.

[Billypenn]

12. Many states have been relying on federal funds

in order to pay their employees, and just about everything else.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. So you are saying schools get ZERO money from the federal government?

Is that what you are saying?

[Rabblevox]

2. Horrid wording. IS THERE A WORDSMITH IN THE HOUSE??? /nt

[Turn CO Blue]

15. This was in another thread and several DU'ers offered rewording

-- some of the rewording by teachers who diagram daily LOL. I recall one was particularly good.

TCB

[Ezlivin]

4. You may be a One-Percenter if...

You see nothing wrong with asking a teacher to take a 20% pay cut but balk at asking millionaires to pay an additional 3% in taxes.

[meegbear]

5. Because you're implying it is?

[Uncle Joe]

7. A courtesan, sycophant or someone suffering from Delusions of Grandeur.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

[harun]

18. Wisconsin