[Nea Wood]

A few years ago a teacher tried to tell me that there was no reason a good teacher shouldn’t make as much as a pro baseball player.

I hear that all the time. People don't seem to "get" that teachers' salaries and baseball players' salaries come from completely different sources. It's just a self-righteous, feel-good statement that people like to say.

[cripplecreek]

Plus, no one is forced to pay a baseball player’s salary by way of taxation.