Bernie's Call for $60k Minimum Salary for Teachers

It's a curious statement that Bernie made over the weekend.....that we need to establish $60k as the minimum starting point for teachers.

The current rate in Montana?  Around $31k a year.  Alabama?  Just a notch above the $31k a year. 

Average pay (meaning ten plus years) as a teacher in Kentucky?  $52,000.  For Arizona, it's around $47,000. 

The problem I see is that you'd have to go to almost all of the fifty states, and raise levels up.  Into the billions?  Yes.

So naturally, you'd ask the question....are some of these teachers (fresh out of college) even worth $60,000 a year?  Are some of these teachers, even at age 38....worth $60,000 a year. 

If you got around to them....why not the road department employees for the state of Texas?  Shouldn't they be all making $45,000 a year minimum salary? 

Where would all this fresh new money for teachers come from?  Well.....more taxation.