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Originally Posted by pointman
Wow, Robinhood, those poor public employees have to pay a small percentage into their pensions and benefits just like workers in the private sector? Then everyone got some tax breaks including those in the private sector who cannot afford to pay for those bloated pensions and benefits that private sector workers can't get? As a result the State Budget Deficit has been cut?
What an absolute outrage! Those damn Koch brothers are taking over the world, soon there will be only rich people and the incredibly poor wandering the streets without jobs while the rich laugh at them! Let's not forget about those poor Union leaders who now don't get mandatory dues which prevents them from paying themselves ridiculously high salaries and now they don't have money to fund the violence and damage to allow them to get even more!  |
The Wisconsin state budget deficit has not been cut. The deficit has been hidden by spreading it out over multiple years.
And the average increase in contribution by state workers was $2000 a year. $40 a week pay cut matters to a lot of people - it's a tank of gas, or groceries, or food for your kids. These were cuts the governor asked for, and the unions
immediately agreed to.
Walker busted the unions anyway.
And that - busting the unions - is why he, and multiple Republican state senators, were subjected to recall. At least the recall worked as it stopped Walker by turning the Senate from Republican to Democratic.