1. Most areas, teachers and other public employees are pretty much “middle class” and median income for the communities where they live, or below, for equivalent education and experience. This is always ignored by “conservatives”, especially the “blue collar masses” being told by their “1% er” bosses how tough it is to make yacht payments with all those taxes they evade.
2. Most lottery states have CONTRACTORS running the lotteries, and machines, and taking “more than tidy” profits off the top, no matter where the limited income to the state ends up, the contractors generally end up with more of the cut.
1. Most areas, teachers and other public employees are pretty much “middle class” and median income for the communities where they live, or below, for equivalent education and experience. This is always ignored by “conservatives”, especially the “blue collar masses” being told by their “1% er” bosses how tough it is to make yacht payments with all those taxes they evade.
2. Most lottery states have CONTRACTORS running the lotteries, and machines, and taking “more than tidy” profits off the top, no matter where the limited income to the state ends up, the contractors generally end up with more of the cut.