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Originally Posted by spence
If you want me to pay more for my insurance you'd better give me a raise to compensate
-spence
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Gimme gimme gimme.
Earth to Spence. Since 2008, median wages are down, and medical costs are way up. Most people, therefore, have not seen wage hikes to offset their out-of-pocket medical costs.
Your union folk here certainly seem to embrace your "you better give me a raise or else" socialist dogma, don't they? What if they didn't do a good enough job to get a raise? Or in the case of a public entity, what if (1) not enough money exists to give them a raise, and (2) the citizenry can not absorb additional tax hikes?
Spence, it would be great if no one ever saw a decrease in take home wages. But we are several years into the worst recession since the Great Depression. This isn't the roaring 1920's. The private sector has sure reflected that (except in the case of CEOs). If wages for the entire taxpayer base are down significantly since 2008, by what logic must public employees be immune from that?
When you have less money, you need to spend less. That's not advanced calculus.