Most family incomes in Bronxville are in the six and seven figures, ranking the village among the wealthiest enclaves in America. But even an additional $100 to $200 tacked onto property tax bills has met enough resistance to make town officials think twice.
Some residents argue that the town should be more businesslike, cutting other costs to offset the outlay for smaller classes. Peter P. Pulkkinen is one. A 40-year-old investment banker, he and his wife, Sarah, moved here in 2004 from the Upper East Side and their two oldest children are now in the first and third grades. He wants small classes for them. But rather than raise taxes, he would restrict the compensation of existing teachers — particularly their benefits.
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“I think it is a false paradigm to have to choose between radically diminished services or exponentially higher taxes,” he said, “without first addressing the structural issue of teacher compensation.”
A fucking investment banker demanding that teachers take a hit so that he doesn't have to pay a coupl of hundred bucks per year in property tax? That's bad enough - but this jackhole doesn't seem to realize that paying teachers less will certainly result in "radically diminished services", sooner or later.
If idiots like this are in charge of America's financial infrastructure, no wonder we're fucked.
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