undersea, I pay loads of taxes. Your payment is one I'm happy to support. As far as I'm concerned, I'd axe almost all entitlement spending—say reduce all entitlement spending by 50%. I'd take a chunk of the savings from that and raise the pay of those at the sharp end by a lot (the rest to deficit/debt reduction).
People make the entirely bogus claim that teachers are not paid well enough all the time. That's clearly nonsense because public school pay rates are not far off private school teacher pay (usually higher I think)—a free market price.
Combat troops, OTOH, are not paid nearly well enough for what they do for us. Literally risking everything they have, or ever will have.
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