 than Stalin's gulag USSR? Were any additional federal funds or reduced liabilities considered for the federal mandates on health care than many states are rejecting and fighting as in violation of the 10th amendment? Were any of the mandatory cuts the federal government will now have to make to health programs included, since they didn't exist in 2010 when the'study' was started?
It's just a coincidence that this report comes out during the TABOR lawsuit, right? It's also coincidence that the "news" creates inflamatory propaganda rather than reporting NEWS anymore. If it was so easy to sum up, why wasn't our government putting new taxes on every ballot? Because asking the voters for permission would be beneath them.
Hey speed bump.
You have no idea what the unions have done for your life.
I have never belonged to a union.
Without Unions the regular average person would be working fore $5.00 an hour living in corporate housing. You would have no benefits. No vacation.. No sick days No week ends off. and you would beg for any bonus you could get.
You would be a serf.
Start reading all the Federal and State laws that have to do with the employee.
Send me a message in three months.
If we did not have unions and lawyers and groups like the ACLU Corporate America and the Rich would walk all over you. You would be a little begging serf.
I know that the Republicans and the Religious Right have been against Unions for ever as somthing evil. That how I was raised. Turns out I was lied to. Everygroup has their problem abusing power but without unions you would be a serf. Count on it Bet on it and take it to bank.
When government is growing faster than the economy, I think I see the problem.
The state budget never gets cut, maybe funds are shifted around to give the DP hysterical headlines, but really there has been no real budgetary reductions. Mandated federal programs will eventually consume the entire state treasury without a proportional increase in state taxes to preserve today's state services. Almost all state budgetary problems originate from non-profit and special interest group meddling originating through the federal government. The federal government is too large, bureaucratic, wasteful and corrupt. Unless the federal government noose around the neck of Colorado government is thrown off, both government entities and local school spending will consume all wealth of all individuals who have any wealth left.
I earn a salary higher than most union jobs, my employer routinely sends me to training (locally or out-of-state), they paid for my MBA, provide numerous other perks, and no where is there a union to be found that brought me these benefits.
My employer is one of those big, bad, mean > $100B companies we frequently hear abuses their employees. Yet here I am, happy and enjoying life because of what they offer to me.
What? The problem with the States politicians is that they ruined the revenue that the State was making off of the oil and gas industry. Ritter and his cronies cost the State over 40,000 jobs in two weeks plus the revenue from the oil industry. But, they increased the rate of their spending. Also don't forget that these law makers gave us all of those new fees going around tabor. They raised the cost of our licence plates, our candy and people working off the internet.
The problem is that our State leaders are still spending to much and the love giving our money away to illegal immigrants as well. So Colorado as a spending problem and a democrat progressive spending problem. The tax payers are already over taxed and yet they continue to over spend and to cook the books...
It seems Colorado is going the way of bankruptcy and over taxation like California since the Dems are running our State...
First, unions were a good thing, (once upon a time). Yes, they did get benefits for people who could not have gotten them individually. I would never disagree with that fact, nor would nearly anyone. However, we are talking about now, not 50-60 years ago.
4) They force businesses to keep paying workers who are no longer needed, etc.
Second, unions for workers who are employed by the government are truly a conflict of interest. These people are supposed to work for the benefit of citizens, yet they setup rules and laws that prevent themselves from being fired even when they deserve to be fired.
This is the constant, irritatingly dishonest assessment/mantra of the left who can't think of anything else except to get their hands on more of your money. They wouldn't even know if tax cuts alone would work because as long as we have had a democrat legislature they never tried it. They cannot restrain themselves from inventing multiple ways to part you and your money in the name of compassion but it is truly a front for power. Enslave America to entitlements, etc.
It would be much, much, much easier to read all those laws in China, India, all our other competitors countries than to read them here.
Which is why the jobs are there or going there in stead of being or staying here.
So enjoy being an unemployed Union serf here while those over their enjoy being employed serfs.
And that reality is neither easy or prejudiced, no matter how you would like.
That said, I believe there wouldn't be a great deal of savings, as converting PERA to Soc Sec plus a 401k would cost close to 20% of payroll (employee + employer contributions), however, it would be perceived as fair, especially if PERA retirement age was increased to match Soc Sec.
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A state requested study from a state funded university, now isn't that a novelty. My question is where do you think people will continue to come up with money to pay these taxes and fees??? With 14 million unemployed, millions more underemployed and no jobs in the future things don't look good for the average american who is struggling to hang onto their homes if they haven't lost them already. Perhaps the state should look at the services they are providing and learn to live within their means just like we all have to do. many of these social service programs allow applicants 200-300% above the poverty level to receive services which they were not intended to do. State cuts really haven't been cuts at all but reductions in spending, maybe its time for the state to learn to live within their means just like we all have to do, of course as long as they have the ability to tax the citizens that isn't going to happen.
I personally know many private industry employees that should not have their jobs. They stand around socializing doing one hour worth of work in eight hours. However, I am smart enough to know this is a personal affliction and has nothing to do with Unions, or government jobs. Earth to John Galt: a lot of people do not like their jobs and firing them is not going to balance the budget. You should quit demonizing things based on your small perspective.
Getting rid of the $2.2 billion dollar a year welfare department, also known as the Colorado Department of Human Services, would go a long way in calming the hysteria being spewed by these ultra-liberal "experts".
The State should commission the Colorado Union of Taxpayers(CUT) to conduct a tax study.
Don't worry folks; all of the illegal immigrants the democrats have been letting into the sanctuary state known as Colorado will turn things around. After all, aren't they just a huge benefit to the economy while using hardly any resources? It's not like they steal American jobs, put their kids in our schools, get on welfare, use our infrastructure, and clog our courts and hospitals, is it?
We all know the State spends billions on special classrooms and teachers, interpreters for courts and hospitals, welfare fraud, and housing inmates. I keep wondering why all of the politicians and the powers that be keep ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Eliminate the problem of illegal immigration, and the majority of budget problems with go away.
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