LTSaloon: Union workers are 'bottom feeders' and 'freeloaders'

Lt Saloon write an article noting  that Wisconsin was projected to end 2011 with a budget surplus of $120 million.

As Ezra Klein explained, newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker then ” signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy experiment that "lowers overall tax revenues." The new legislation was not offset, and it turned a surplus into a deficit.


Walker then used the deficit he’d created as the justification for assaulting his state’s public employee union.

He used a law cooked up by a right-wing advocacy group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC likes to fly beneath the radar, but I described the organization in a 2005 article as “the connective tissue that links state legislators with right-wing think tanks, leading anti-tax activists and corporate money.”

Similar laws are on the table in Ohio and Indiana. Rightardia would expect  grifter-governor Rick  Scott to follow suit in Florida. Scott has talked about voucherizing the public school system and eliminating tenure.

Scott also wants to take 5 per cent of all public employees pay checks to pay for state pensions. This is after five years of frozen Florida public wages.

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