A few random points (from an extremist Right-wing Whacko):
The Department of Education should be abolished because it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Check out Article 1 Section 8, and the Tenth Amendment. Education is up to the states.
The greatest impediment to public education right now is collective bargaining for teachers. Even ignoring the immense tax burden of over-compensating teachers, the unions have effectively made it impossible to remove an incompetent teacher, which acts like a cancer on the entire "profession." See how hard you will work when you know for a fact that you can never be removed from your position, and that you are set for life, regardless of how hard or how effectively you work.
The public school system in, say, Germany, works very well with essentially none of what we euphemistically refer to as "extracurricular activities." No school sports, no school chess club, none of it. Schools are for education, period. Other stuff is provided by community-based organizations, company-sponsored activities, "club" sports, and other non-school organizations. And they seem to do an OK job of educating the kids. It's a wonder, isn't it?
Unions are strong in Germany, but unlike here, they do not see it as their raison d'etat to protect the worst of the employees from the normal and natural results of their incompetence or laziness. The unions (usually) work with management to try to make the company more profitable, the products better and safer, and so forth. Unbelievable, isn't it?
Both on a political and on a personal level, whining about how much someone else makes, or how much they pay in taxes, is petty and counterproductive. It doesn't come out of your pocket, either directly or indirectly. If you don't like what the chairman of Acme Manufacturing makes, don't buy their stock and don't buy their products. Otherwise, just shut up and make the most of your own life and quit whining about people you don't know, and circumstances you couldn't possibly comprehend. Maybe that CEO made billions for his stockholders, or maybe his astute leadership resulted in the company only losing X million dollars when all their competitors were losing 10X million dollars. You don't know. Deal with it.
And life isn't fair - nobody promised it would be fair. And it will never be fair, and if you go through life looking for "fairness," you are both stupid and doomed to unhappiness, and if you even imagine that you know what "fairness" is, you are delusional. Is it fair that we were born in the richest country in the world and can make a fortune with just a little bit of inititiative and luck, while billions of other poor bastards were born in some shit-hole country where the best you can hope for is 40 years of misery before you die of some easily-curable disease, because your corrupt government made it impossible to get the vaccine?
Have I gone off the track? Sorry.
Now a teacher should make 120k per year either. lol but on the other hand they should be paid around 40-60k and the rest goes toward equipment.
On the other hand a sciencist, doctors or construction workers should make more then a foot ball player or a hedge fund manager as they're more important to society.
