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Originally Posted by flstf
I had no idea it was only 3% so I guess they should have no problem giving that up. How much more can I keep to help pay for my healthcare insurance if I don't have to contribute to theirs?.
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Yet another false dichotomy. You speak of this as if this were a matter of income redistribution, not of public employees. If you don't think there should be public education, that is one thing. If you think there should be, then there will be some sort of compensation that will come from your taxes and paid to them. You don't get to have one without the other.
In the mean time, most Americans complaining about where their taxes are going will receive more in direct services from the state than what they pay in taxes.
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On an unrelated note, let's be clear here. If the real issue in Wisconsin was the budget the same bill that cuts collective bargaining wouldn't also have tax cuts only for the top bracket. If the real issue was, say, quality of education, the #2 state in the nation wouldn't be trying to implement the model of the bottom 5. If the real issue was the inefficiency of public sector unions, the unions that supported Walker wouldn't be exempt.
The real issue here is demobilizing organizations that are historically democratic.
Just like all the blame the teacher rhetoric is also about attacking a democratic base.