Yet some how, despite you being a bad teacher (your own words), the kids in charter schools test better.

Weird, huh?

Please explain how there are tin of statistics between different states as well as per pupil spending in the US vs other countries showing zero correlation between per pupil spending and positive student outcomes.

You guys have screamed for decades how we need to spend more! Spend more! And yet, go ahead and look at a place like Chicago where teachers are making 6 figures, well over double the average incomes for the area yet almost none of the students can read or do math at anything even close to their grade levels.

At what point will you acknowledge that spending more is not helping anyone but the teacher's unions? It does nothing for the kids.

Anecdotally, I paid way fucking more to have my kid in California public school than now in Florida yet her nothing special Florida school is teaching her things her California friends in the most advanced classes aren't being taught. She's actually helping them online every week because her California friends aren't being taught. Yet California pays waaaaay more for those shitty educations.

Dear Wolf Warrior,

This post has been rated "blatant crap" and as such you will not receive the standard 50 cents per post.

In fact, this post was so lame, I thought it was sarcasm until I looked up to see it was posted by our very own China shill, wolf warrior extraordinaire who never saw an act of CCP brutality or stupidity she couldn't flip 180 with outright lying.

They should replace you with a deepseek bot. You know, the one that writes vulnerable code if it thinks you're not pro-CCP.

So when China blocks US products coming in, that's a brilliant move which helps China, hurts the US, and oh yeah Orange Man Bad and some wolf warrior jackass mods you up for the hate America shilling.

But when the US does the same thing to Chinese companies like Huawei for the exact same nationalist and protective reasons, you 50 cent Chinese shills go ballistic, tell us there's no evidence Chinese products are infected, it's the worst idea ever for the American economy, completely stupid and racist to block a Chinese company in the US. And then some Orange Man Bad mods you up for your 50 cent wolf warrior Chinese shilling.

You're so predictable, as are your dual standard hypocritical pals.

Which tax scams are those?

As one of those rich guys you loathe so much I'd love to know what scams I'm missing out on, especially since I just wired in my quarterly estimated payment yesterday.

I've look high and low for these alleged scams the jealous envious poor (you) think exist. They do not.

I pay a larger percentage than you and I certainly pay more than you in absolute terms.

In fact, I'll bet I pay more in taxes every year than you'll pay over your entire life.

There are no huge loopholes. There are no scams. There is no way to avoid ttaxes. There is no escape.

There are ways to spread a one time windfall across several years to reduce the total hit a -little- but even those methods have other costs, like having your money locked away untouchable for years and the amount saved is not dramatic.

Please post a url describing these scams you claim exist, since none of my advisors or very expensive accounts seems to be aware of this secret knowledge you possess. I likely pay my accountants and advisors more than you make yet here we are. You know more than they do. You should change careers and help out rich guys like me. You'd make a killing.

And yes the IRS is still enforcing the law. That's why I've had to pay tax attorneys tens of thousands to make sure my stuff was straight and deal with the IRS the one time it wasn't. Because the IRS enforces the law quite strictly.

Hey, that's great, glad you made it, too. You're just like me, then, right?

Did the union help you retire or did you do it by applying your own hard work, skill, and natural talent and intelligence to create more value than people around you who didn't work as hard?

Did everyone in your union get to retire early together? All for one, one for all! We must stand by our brothers! From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!

Hear me out. This is not a troll.

You're a problem for any mid/large sized company. You're a single point of failure.

If a company is critically dependent on an individual then someone in management has fucked up. It's the question that should always be asked and have a good answer, "What happens if Joe gets hit by a bus?".

If you worked for me, I'd make certain that whatever it is you do, there are at least 2 other people who can perform those same tasks at a functional level. They don't have to be as good as you but they have to be able to get it done properly even if it takes them longer at first.

Your previous management didn't do that. That's on them. But if you're working at places that can't survive without you then consider that you're working to stupid/incompetent people. Is that really who you want to work for? Wouldn't you prefer to -not- be a single point of failure but work with/for smart people?

I think you're working at the wrong places.

But I am better than Marvin.

That's why I retired early and rich and now have time to spend with my family, travel the world, but every toy I want, fuck around playing video games, read comics, and do all the other things I didn't have time for when I was working. Because I was working and not fucking around like some union tool who think he's he should get more than he's worth which is what collective bargaining means.

If you were worth anything more than you're already getting you could negotiate better for yourself. And Marvin? Fuck him, he should do better and stop riding my coat tails. I'm better than him and should get more than him.

And yes I eventually got myself promoted up into executive management where I continued working harder than everyone around me and those reporting to me. Until I didn't have to anymore.

Working harder than everyone else was its own reward. And deeply satisfying.

Try working instead of moaning about how other people are getting better results by better applying themselves.

Unions served a purpose when my grandfather was working blue collar jobs. They won all the big battles. Now it's just a crutch for lazy people trying to get over paid and a way for the union bosses to rake in executive level salaries while you get fucked by them and the company, too. Congrats, you're in a union, now you have 2 corporate bosses instead of one. Smart move!

China is ahead of the US in every field. They are a good morally run country populated by the most educated, smart, hard working, inventive, pacifistic and ethical people.

With this new invention going into every chip soon, they will be able to much more efficiently harvest organs, oppress their people, hide their broken economy and demographic implosion, and steal their neighbors resources around the entire South China Sea.

I love slashdot. I learn so much about the real world here.

What next? How Israel is genociding innocent Gazans by bringing in more food every day than the people need? How Charlie's assassin is a maga republican (all political violence is right wing)? How Trump has been diagnosed senile on Bluesky but Joe is sharper and higher energy than his GenZ staff? That illegal aliens aren't committing crimes? That government officials who put out politicized numbers should be praised not fired? That shooting or canceling anyone with a different world view is good and moral and ethical because they're all Nazis anyway, right (not that they're way smarter and more educated and aware than you and you're incapable of debating them on the merits of your ideas)?

I look forward to further learning from my slashdot moral and intellectual superiors on China and all other issues.

I wonder as a disabled non-CCP leader American if I can buy some political prisoner organs from China once these new chips improve the speed of organ harvesting from political prisoners. Can they do eyes yet? I don't like wearing reading glasses at night. Chinese political prisoners don't need eyes sitting in dark cells anyway. A win-win. I'll send a text to Pooh Bear to ask him the next time he runs a parade of faked up military hardware through Tiananmen Square.

Now some maggat repubkikkkan is going to mod me down! They're all about cancel culture and fear open debate just like Charlie Kirk was afraid of debate so he shot himself to avoid answering a question.

Texas: people are taxed for the goods they buy which results in people having control of their tax burden. Eg/; want to pay less tax, buy a cheaper car. And the absolute value of the taxes paid by the rich are higher because they will buy that Mercedes instead of the Civic.

California: people are taxed for everything including having a huge sales tax. So they pay for everything they buy, they pay for working, they pay and pay and pay.

The percentages are irrelevant and just a way to lie with statistics. Someone earning 600K+ is paying more in taxes than someone earning 30k in both states. Note how the article you link to fails to mention the absolute cost in taxes paid at various brackets. Weird, weird....

This is the kind of statistical lying everyone _should_ be able to see through by the time they graduate high school. Sadly, that is not true.

Why do you say Chinese made stuff doesn't last and is essentially throw away? Are you racist?

China is the world leader in tech, education, production, space, AI, batteries, pretty much everything good and to this day has never done anything bad to anyone. They've a victim of white western society. They have more renewables and a cleaner environment than the evil white West. They peacefully run their nice country for the benefit of all their citizens and the world and never did nuffin to no one! They're like the Wakanda of Asia! They just want the whole world to be happy.

I learned all that on slashdot.

This part deserves its own reply:

I am not smart. I am dumb.

What gave you the idea I think I'm smart? I've never said that.

Oh, did you think my name meant that you're smart and I'm just way smarter than that? It does not mean that. Only some Dunning Kruger clown (like 90% of slashdot, including you) sees it that way. Very few of you are even average. I have a great deal of respect for the small number of very smart people here but you're not one of them.

TLDR:
I am fucking dumb as a sack of wet bricks. But I am still way smarter than you. Your post demonstrated your sheer idiocy. Good job!

Yeah, weird, how blue collar guys who weren't brainwashed by some ultra lefty university (bonus: did not pay 6 figures for that 'education') didn't vote for the DEI cackling whore.

Weird, weird.....

Real men who live in the real world voted intelligently. The way it should be.

Then there are people like me who graduated from a top 5 school which was extremely leftist. I went in as a blank slate politically but I did have a brain. By the time I came out I understood exactly what sort of lying fascist illogical hate filled pieces of shit the left is. And your side has only gotten worse in the decades since then.

The pendulum is now swinging back as the vast majority of normal people have caught on to your evil bullshit. That pendulum is heavy, it swings fast and it hits hard. Your world view is dying and soon to be relegated to the trash heap of history as the embarrassment it is. The genA kids and the kids after them even more so will read about the idiocy of millenial and genz leftists in shock and awe thinking you must have been some sort of giant cultural joke being played on everyone else.

It's not surprising dumb people like yourself would confuse intelligence with 'education' which is really just leftist brainwashing at most schools today. There's a reason why so many males skip the school debt and indoctrination and go straight into adulthood, get a job, and vote against your insanity.

What's that giant chunk of metal that just smacked you in the face breaking your nose? The pendulum. Boom!

The numbers have been massively restated for each of the last 18 months. The numbers are crap and have been crap.

Crap, crap, crap. Be it incompetence, political influence, both, or something else, doesn't matter. They're total crap.

When you do a shitty job, which she did, you should get fired. Yes, Trump didn't like the numbers. Because they were wrong. Again. Just like they were off by large numbers the previous 17 months.

When your only job is making sure the numbers are reasonably accurate and you utterly and miserably fail 18 months in a row, you should be fired. You think not? And what? She should've got a raise to encourage her to continue putting out more crap numbers forever?

No, she didn't personally generate the numbers but as the leader of the org it was up to her to find out what was wrong, why the numbers were crap, and fix the root cause. She did not. So what good was she? She was worthless. Why was she employed when she couldn't competently run and improve her org?

Her only job was putting our reasonably accurate numbers. She failed every time.

This dumb clown over stated her boss's (Biden) job creation by 1.5 MLLUON. That's either the height of incompetence or the lowest form of political hackery. And you think she did great.

Of course she was fired. Maybe the next person will clean up the mess she made of that org. Clearly a bunch more people need to either be fired or improve their processes or both.

And naturally you got modded up for supporting some incompetent who got shit canned for providing crap numbers. Welcome to slashdot because Orange Man Bad even when he's right.

This is what happens when foreigners who know nothing about my country have uninformed opinions and post their commentary like they know what they're talking about but obviously don't. They say dumb things with certainty. Dunning Kruger ftw.

Yes, he fired the same person who was ultimately responsible for putting out crap numbers.

And you think firing her was a bad idea? She's why the numbers were wrong.

The cognitive dissonance and lack of logic is strong in this one.

SMH

Firing her should never have been a political issue. She was obviously incompetent. As you noted.

Yes, exactly. The destruction of the Amazon rain forests has caused a dramatic drop in oxygen around the world, as predicted by the models.