5 Responses to “Taxpayers’ Burden”

1. Kevin on March 4th, 2011 8:59 am

   The unions in Wisconsin agreed to the concessions brought forth by the governor there, but he still wants to abolish collective bargaining. Not to mention there is some sketchy legislation in there that allows the sale of public-owned power plants without requiring a bidding process. Beyond that, we complain about public workers making $50,000 with benefits when we are giving millionaires and billionaires massive tax breaks?

   I agree that often times unions can do more harm than good, but Americans should have the right to collective bargaining, and taking away that right isn’t going to fix financial shortfalls, especially when you let the rich off the proverbial hook.

2. Rusty Rabon on March 4th, 2011 9:32 pm

   In my view, labor unions have done more to cause economic harm in this country than all the Wall Street investment bankers put together. Selfish and greed is definitely a two-way street . . .

3. Geoff on March 6th, 2011 9:11 am

   Our elected officials have, for years, made use of a change in the federal law requiring them to put aside monies for pension. They decided to not put the money aside - that they would pay it ’sometime in the future’. Like Social Security they have taken taxpayer money which should have be used for pensions and spent it on something else like their bridges to nowhere.

   If you take money and don’t pay it back it is stealing. Now that it is time to pay it back they are making the people they stole from the bad ones and trying to convince the rest of us of that.

4. Buzzramjet on March 7th, 2011 3:21 pm

   Sorry but that is a lame cartoon. The taxpayers don’t support unions other than in pay and public sector unions make less than private sector people.

   Unions are the best thing that ever happened to America. Without them no middle class. The Banksters of Wall Street have done incredible damage to America and thinking unions have is the dumbest thing I have ever read.

5. Robert Ariail on March 7th, 2011 7:14 pm

   Buzzramjet, you’ve got it all wrong about public sector unions. Everything from pay to pension is ultimately paid by the taxpayer( who’s private sector pension is now depleted or gone and who these days, in many cases, makes less in pay and benefits than the public sector union worker.)

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