Extra Credit: Anti-teacher flier stirs tempest in Janesville

Wisconsin State journal ^

[Forty-Niner]

“Does not include paid vacations,...”

Yet when summer comes, they all get “laid off” causing panic in press, propaganda that we need to raise taxes, etc., meanwhile the “laid off” teachers collect “unemployment” for the summer, lay around and play around until they get rehired in the fall (always unreported) and still complain about being underpaid/hard job/underappreciated etc......

[PapaBear3625]

With government & taxes out of control, people are looking for scapegoats. The federal & state Byzantiums are too large and disparate to attack. Local school taxes are close to home (all politics is local). I'd love to see an exposé and audit of the myriad bureaucracies that are strangling our economy, in addition to the focus on education.

In 2004-2005, K-12 education accounted for $536 BILLION in spending. That is a significant chunk of our tax dollars.

And yes, I would also like to see some light shed on how government money is spent. Particularly on how grant money is issued.

[rabidralph]

Cost of living is a little bit lower in Wisconsin and the median income is around the mid-thirties or so.

Here's PDF of per capita personal income in the counties through 2003.

Other demographic info about Wisconsin