GOP led Congress raises taxes on teachers

[TheFarseer]

Sorry no link and this isn't exactly breaking news, but in my tax class tonight, I just learned that Congress let the $250 deduction for teacher's classroom expenses expire. Without doing any actual calculations, this figures to raise taxes on most teachers by around $25-$38 (depending on marginal tax rate). This is the same group of people that most Americans feel are underpaid and under-appreciated. Yet tax cuts for millionaires suspiciously don't expire. Did anyone even hear about this? Why no fuss that the GOP is raising taxes?

[immerlinks]

1. Here's a novel idea

Why are teachers paying taxes in the first place? They are so underpaid and under appreciated, they more than any fat repub deserve a tax cut (and a huge pay raise).

[TheFarseer]

3. well, I don't like getting into

this profession is better than that one so they don't have to pay taxes (except not taxing combat pay, I'm OK with), but I do have a problem when teachers have to buy extra stuff for the classroom because the government is too cheep to buy it and they can't even write it off!

[zbdent]

4. What teachers should do ...

when a RWer (read: screams "My kid would never do that!" after spouting about how, if it were his kid doing something nasty, he'd get two beatings ...) complains about teachers getting paid for their work, the teacher should, having had the RWer's kid in his/her class, send the parent a bill for babysitting service ... at the going rate ...

[TheFarseer]

2. OK, here's a link

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/CongressScrewUpMayCostUsABundle.aspx

also expired is the tuition and fees deduction but I don't feel too bad about that one because everyone takes the lifetime learning unless they make too much money and have to take tuition and fees instead (unless there are special cases I'm not aware of)