The Law of Unintended Consequences Will Kick You In The Balls Every Time

[Chad32]

More pay means more customers

If you say so. I used to work in aviation. Flight instructors tend to make about $20 per flight hour. All time they spend at the flight school not flying is generally unpaid. So lets pay the flight instructors the $60 per flight hour they probably deserve and also pay them $20 per hour they put in at the flight school not flying. Great. Now flight instructors are finally making a living wage.

Now as expensive as flight training already is, flight schools actually operate on razor thin margins. Cost of insurance is a big factor. Cost of keeping the equipment maintained per FAA requirements is also huge and not getting any cheaper.

So please explain in detail how increasing the wage for flight instructors translates into more customers for the flight school which somehow won't have to 'raise prices much'.

I was thinking more in terms of someone who sells goods. If everyone's paid more, then more people are buying the goods you're selling, so you're getting more income at the same time you're paying your employees more. Who might, in turn, use some of their money to pay for the goods you're selling as well.

You're talking about education, which is another topic, and probably falls under "use taxpayer money to provide education and training, so more people have opportunities to become better, and give more to society".