The Difference Between What You Want and What You Get

This is an interesting exchange. We all want more than we can have. Often the more we have the more we want. It seems to be the nature of the human condition at least in its fallen state. Payment for work is one of those value things. We often value our work at more than the market. The nature of freedom is that if you don't think you are adequately appreciated you can do something else. Often the role of government has been to force outcomes other than free market outcomes. This tends to distort markets in ways that are unusual. What you tax you get less of. What you subsidize (a negative tax) you get more of. You can always vote with your feet.

SEE HERE for Red State's humorous take on this exchange.

What is really ironic is that the teacher here is actually making more money than she says she should be making SEE HERE and when benefits are included much more. So there is a phony-baloney dimension to this exchange. We need to get the federal government to the point where they balance their budgets and not on the back of the taxpayer. Fewer federal services are just fine with me. I'll be happy with the original set and gladly drop all the extra help we've gotten since the Johnson administration, heck since the Roosevelt administration.