"fabio guillermo rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote: > Question: Why not increase teacher salaries? > > Answer: They can't. Gov't budgets for teachers for are maxed out, > funds for housing are earmarked for housing, not salaries (bogus answer). Salaries are taxed, while "perks" are not? I'm guessing here, because I have never had a job with enough perks (or salary) to concern myself about such things. I do know, however, that in countries with burdensome tax rates in high brackets ( > 50% !), employees who would normally fall in those brackets are instead paid with all manner of "perks" and "allowances," some of which border on the ridiculous. I have heard of jewelry and evening gown allowances, perennial luxury car leases, and at the extreme prostitutes on retainer. I am sure private schools face the same situtation. Sourav Mandal ------------------------------------------------------------ Sourav K. Mandal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/ "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle"
