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A comment on Camden, New Jersey: America's Most Desperate Town. Parent comment

Re:Camden, New Jersey: America's Most Desperate Town by auctiontheory on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @12:54PM (#7219012)
IF you get good teachers, etc. to live in your technocratic war zone, their high salaries jack up the cost of living

I've never heard of the cost of living anywhere going up because of an influx of highly-paid K-12 teachers.

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Re:Camden, New Jersey: America's Most Desperate Town by ReadyCollective on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:13PM (#7219664)
You pay for those teachers typically with property tax revenues. Their pay goes up; your taxes go up. At least, that's how it works in many locales.
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Re:Camden, New Jersey: America's Most Desperate Town by lobo_tuerto on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:38PM (#7219842)
There is no need for those taxes to go up. You can always redistribute.
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