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Presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris has proposed a $315 billion plan to raise teacher pay across the country. Arguing that teachers make on average less than other college educated workers, Harris would like to see the purported income gap between teachers and other college educated workers closed. The proposal may be well-intended, but it’s full of glaring flaws.
First, it represents a massive federal intervention into a policy area that is best, and more properly, handled by states and localities.
Going down the road of having bureaucrats from the U.S. Department of Education establish base salary goals based on the arbitrary standard of what similarly-educated workers make tramples over the flexibility and financial considerations states and school districts have and must contend with.
Second, Harris grants that she’s not quite sure yet how to pay for it. “Well, here’s the thing,” she said at a speech at Texas Southern University in Houston. “You understand that your analysis is not how much does it cost. The question is what’s the return on the investment. And on this, the investment will be our future.”
That might sound compelling enough on the surface, but the reality is that it’s important to have a sense of how to pay for something as massive as a $315 billion giveaway.
Promising to give away money is one of the easiest things a politician can do. It’s certainly much easier than having to say how you’ll pay for it. And it’s even easier than figuring out how to pay for it when the federal government, under current obligations, is already on track to have $1 trillion annual budget deficits for years to come.
Under the most charitable interpretation of Harris’ plan, Harris is merely trying to reflect the commonly held notion that teachers ought to be paid more. But what’s as, or more likely, is that Harris, a presidential candidate who would certainly appreciate the massive spending capabilities of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, is simply making big promises for political points.
Alas, with size of government today, promising to leverage the power of the federal government to please this or that interest group is how the game is played.
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