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Originally Posted by flstf
....The $3000 for state and local taxes is the amount probably most used along with sales taxes to help pay for state and local public employee benefits etc.. which are members of the public unions being discussed here.
A few thousand dollars in our world is a lot of money to buy others benefits when we cannot afford our own.
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According to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, "less than three percent of all state and local government spending was used to fund public pension benefits..."
http://www.nasra.org/resources/ERContributions.pdf
Of your $3,000 state/local tax bill, that amounts to less than $90.
But as dippin noted, this is not about pensions costs or state budget deficits...it is simply anti-union politics, particularly given than the unions in WI have agreed to significant cuts in the state's contribution to employee pensions.