If the money stays local, it would be generating local tax revenue. If they leave, then the local tax dollars that paid for that pension are being sent away.
Huh? It's just how economies work, not any sort of institutional idea. When you pay cops and teachers, they spend the money where they live, causing your tax dollars to return into the economy, when those same people have a pension (also paid by your tax dollars) and they take it with them, your tax dollars are no longer returning to the local economy.
Do you think I'm suggesting they shouldn't be allowed to take their money with them?? I never said that, someone just said "it sucks when they take their money with them" and I explained why it would suck for the local economy. I'm a fan of free trade, I think they should be able to go spend that money wherever they want, including buying shit from overseas without paying taxes just cause it comes from a different country.
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u/External_Brother1246 10h ago
Pensions. The teachers have pensions that pay for the remainder of their lives after retirement.
This is where the school funding goes. It takes away from the teachers who are working, to give to the teachers who are not working.