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You should be given a one day ban for posting that.

Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate America. Your decision really doesn't matter to the company in the long run. You take the position, you show mgmt that they can make you a bitch and pay you chump change. You don't take the position and you're outcast as someone lacking ambition.

They'll be dangling that carrot in front of you for all it's worth, and it never ends. There is no 'pay your dues' anymore. You either get in and networked with the right people within your first few months so you're 'IN', or you don't and you're a peon your whole career because they just can't promote you since "no one else is better at the job than you. We really need you where you're at, maybe project mgmt should be a LONG term goal....maybe, but we can't afford to lose you where you're at now".

You better learn to play the game before it plays you.

Would you take the same salary for MORE vacation days, or less? It's your tax dollars folks.

Well hot damn, I'm salary... now I just need to convince my boss that it's not gonna cost them any more if I take a couple extra days vacation each year. A couple extras days for me means a lot more than someone who gets 12 weeks+ already.

While I fully agree that it is time that you never get back to educate the booger factories, it doesn't justify paying for these teachers to return on scheduled days off.

Now you're flipping the script... right now calamity days are at 3, Kasich wants to increase it to 5... so they aren't scheduled days off. Teachers are aware of their state and district policies on making up days if they go over on 'calamity days'. So the two bonus days will be additional paid vacation on top of the 3 months they already get.

Not to mention the effect on morale this will have. Teachers put up with some real bullshit and having a few surprise days off during the winter can go a long way.

Everyone has to put up with bullshit - it's life. People pursue the careers they do for various reasons, but that's not an excuse. If they need a personal day for their own mental health, then that can be part of their sick leave.

Along with having the summers off, they get more holidays than most of us too, and now they need additional days off given by the state to improve morale? They're just as free to walk off their job and go work somewhere else as the rest of us.

That's a strange way to look at it. With the budgets like they are, just because it doesn't add cost to a bottom line -- it's ok to get less productivity? And that's not counted as being wasteful? And of all the areas to waste money... wasting money on the side of LESS education is really the direction you'd wanna go?

I just wanna know where all the peoplewent that rail and rail against "gov't waste", they're strangely silent.

When you're talking about paying teachers for two extra days of paid vacation across the entire state. That's a lot of money, I'm guessing. I could see this making sense if there was a budget for it, or if Ohio was ranked #1 in education -- maybe it'd be deserved, but because we live in a state that gets snow and because his 10yr old daughter brought it up... that's the reasoning he's giving? It's going to be a long bumpy road with this guy.

Maybe he doesn't want kids learning about evolution for those two extra days?

"I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin', but I'd kinda like to make love to you tonight."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORCnvGnaAM

MLK Day, Pres Day, SB... yea, they make them up, but Kasich wants the makeup days to start after 5 free ones, not the current 3... netting 2 free days, for no valid reason.

No, the teachers should be paid a salary to teach a certain number of hours per year. Regardless of when they occur. Adding two extra 'calamity days' to the schedule are just going to be "free days" for when there is pay for no work. Wasteful gov't spending.

It's not like I'm saying they can't call off for the children's safety. But that should be made up later. 14 hours of missed school adds up pretty quick if it happens each year.

Yea, our 3C money went to Cali.

There are other states that mandate 180 days, period. That's just the start, I don't have a lot to bitch about yet because he hasn't done anything significant yet. This is the the start of the downhill trend.

Education -- is pretty important, and it's not like our tax dollars aren't paying for those teachers, admins, etc. to be there on those days - they get paid regardless... I wish I got additional paid vacation at the taxpayers expense. So, does Kasich have a good reason to go to five days, other than "the weather is bad" and "my daughter would like 2 more days off school"? Really?

"The fastest way to look ghey". Unless Pauly thinks he can put his warbanner on quicker than 72mph

New Ohio governor wants to go back to five snow days

Yes, the first order of business should be to educate our kids less.

Hee Hee Hee... it's funny because you don't touch the sides.

Except it's your penis. Kawi - we'll still let you use the tweezers.

Rut row, you make a ruling that gets you in the news and all your skeletons get pushed to the front of the closet.

I.O.K.T.B.A.A.J.I.Y.A.R.

Anti-HCR Judge Should Have Recused Himself

That's just poor timing, not necessarily ignorance. Now if you would've bought it at MSRP after the Buell/HD announcement, then you got pwned.

In the case of the OP, I dunno if the got taken, or maybe they're trying to take someone else? Maybe that $8k includes accessories, finance charges, etc? Who knows, either way, it's not a seller I'd want to deal with.

Disagree. Flat tax isn't economically efficient. But I think I'd be a proponent of a VAT tax (with some consideration) if they do away with income tax altogether.

Take Nationwide for instance here locally. Dublin gave them a 10 year tax abatement to open offices there. The idea is to bring the jobs, and collect the taxes later. However, the end of the ten years is up in 2011. Dublin refused to renew the tax abatement. Nationwide is now moving these offices back to downtown Columbus. As part of the deal with the City of Columbus, the City of Columbus will create a Tax Increment Finance District to support the Grandview Yard project being developed by Nationwide Realty. Essentially, another huge tax cut for Nationwide. It's all a game businesses play to get out of paying taxes.

So yes, big businesses pay more in taxes. So do rich people. Should their tax rates be LOWER because they pay more in total? Nada. Flat rate straight across the board. If someone making $30k/yr has to pay 18%, so should the person making $300k/yr. Same goes for businesses. If anything, the tax cuts/breaks should go to the little guys, but even that is iffy in my opinion.

So long as we're now on the same page.

I dunno why that's even an iffy point. The more wealth you extract from a country the more you should pay to protect it -- think of it like mining.

There are people on here that are convinced that lower taxes for the rich = 'trickle down' for the rest of us. This is failed economic concept.

Enlighten me, I'm not aware of a lot of these tax incentives.

Big businesses still pay more in total amounts.

No, not at all. Very much against tax cuts for big business. Very pro small business.

Why would you penalize big business for being successful? If you do that, they'll lose all incentive and just move overseas.

Plutocracy is the American way.

It's all I've ever known...

Let's start a war, start a nuclear war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTN6Du3MCgI

For nostalgia purposes.

Via: http://www.ohio-riders.com/showthread.php?t=58294&page=8

Starts on pg 8, but I took the pic from pg 18.