By: Angry_Taxpayer!

Angry_Taxpayer! — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:11:56 +0000

Even the voters of California are starting to rebel against ever higher taxes with no end in sight to the ever escalating costs of public employee unions. California began the property tax revolt with Proposition 13 back in 1978, and appears to be poised to repeat its leadership on resisting tax increases. The public employee unions have gotten entirely out of hand, enjoying lifetime employment, generous benefits, and pay equal or surpassing the private sector. They have none of the worries or stresses we in the private sector have constantly hanging over our heads. Things such as layoffs or cutbacks never cross their minds. We taxpayers are constantly asked for a little more to support these dedicated public servants whose narrative has been carefully constructed to portray them as less fortunate than their private-sector counterparts and thus more deserving of the meager scraps they manage to procure. However, this false narrative has been shattered under the constant scrutiny of episodes such as the Wisconsin fight to curtail the power of these public sector unions and their demands for more.

By: GothicArch

GothicArch — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:55:23 +0000

I predict taxpayers will pay increasing attention to the rich benefit and retirement plans enjoyed by public employees, and will begin to voice resentment. This will become a controversy affecting all local government functions, so elected officials should bite the bullet,get out in front of this issue, and begin to pare back these plans, before they are forced to do it by either political pressure, fiscal pressure, or a combination one-two of both. Many employees of Fortune 500 corporations have relatively modest retirement plans, if any, and no health insurance benefits in retirement; essentially they are on their own.

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