Should government union workers pay more taxes like business people do?

[shaddoc98]

Obama said, “You didn’t build that...” to business people because he believes the infrastructure helped them: i. e., they don’t make more money “on their own” and so he wants to raise their taxes. But government workers make double what private sector workers make only because unions force taxpayers to pay them more, not because they make more money “on their own.” Why shouldn’t they pay more taxes?


-8/13/10 USA Today: At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade. Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.

-7/8/11 U. S. News Report (usnews.com): The actual number of private sector jobs decreased since 2008. Government jobs increased. During the worst of the downturn, the private sector was hammered with massive job losses, while the public sector held fairly steady.

-2/22/12 CNN, Buffalo, NY: The sweet deal that all the 3,400 teachers in Buffalo are eligible to get under one of their insurance plan options, they are billed nothing for any plastic surgery procedure, such as botox, liposuction, tummy tucks, breast enhancement, rhinoplasty, hair removal on their face and there is no deductible.

-6/8/12 Investors Business Daily: “Private-sector jobs are still down by 4.6 million, or 4%, from January 2008, when overall employment peaked Meanwhile government jobs are down just 407,000, or 1.8%. Federal employment actually is 225,000 jobs above its January 2008 level, an 11.4% increase.”

-6/11/12 Cato Institute (http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/obama-vs-… “Take a look at the data — as you can see from this graphic, public school enrollment has minimally increased over the last few decades, but teacher employment has exploded — the public school workforce has grown 11 times faster than student enrollment over the last 40 years.”
“Furthermore, on a per pupil basis, the inflation-adjusted average cost of a K-12 education has gone from about $55,000 to about $150,000.”

-6/14/12 townhall.com: Every pay period, the Philadelphia school district puts $155 per union member into a special fund that helps educators pay their personal legal bills, which includes everything from routine legal advice to estate planning.

[montrel68]

The Government should subside unions.

[philibert63]

Join a Union or quit crying like a c0nservative baby

[koltin]

Yes - we need to raise their taxes dramatically - if they make double they can pay double.

[laureano97]

Koch Brothers Tea Party to sell America will not prevail

Why does the Tea Patty and NRA want to sell guns to the cartel?

[jolie]

That question is a waste of time. The government workers salaries come from taxes paid by the people. To ask government workers to pay more taxes is the same thing as not paying them as much in the first place.