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| If you are successful in a field, maybe a portion of your wages should be paid as a bonus to the teacher(s) who got you there.
If you become a captain of industry, because Mr Henderson in Geography inspired you to do better, maybe that's when he should get his bonus. I dunno, maybe if you are earning over 500k, then you get a 0.5% levy on your tax that goes towards this.
This will motivate teachers to put the hours in to really help kids (not saying that they don't already, but I think we all probably had a good number of apathetic teachers in our time) and they'd get back a bonus that they richly deserve. | |
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Since tax rates are progressive, there is already a 'levy' on people earning 500k, in the UK last year banks had to pay an extra 50% tax on large bonus's. They still paid them because the benefit exceeded the cost by a large margin.