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Re:California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets by nimish on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:10PM (#17726133)
Increasing the payroll tax (from 12.8 to 14.4%) and removing the wage ceiling (but not the benefit ceiling) so that high earners who have accounted for most of the wage growth recently contribute a fairer share
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Re:California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets by WkndTriathlete on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:07PM (#17726768)
> so that high earners who have accounted for most of the wage growth recently contribute a fairer share

I don't disagree with removing the wage ceiling, but if you word it like that you're pretty much guaranteed to fail, because the equal and opposite to that is "Cut the payroll tax so I don't have to fund the bozos that decided to party all through school instead of working their tail off like I did."

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