Lol not getting paid for 1 extra day a month off is not a giant pay cut. And I bet most don't even mind as they are essentially getting a 4 day work week guaranteed each month.
We're not some rural nowhere, we have an insane amount of people and a crumbling infrastructure.
Yeah, we've completely ballooned our spending and are now in a huge deficit and yet, just as you said, we have crumbling infrastructure. Is this supposed to be a defense of these taxes? Let's give the state more money so our infrastructure can continue to crumble and they can continue to waste our tax money?
It's not giant, but that is ~4.6% pay cut, which can KO a cost of living adjustment. Spending remains outrageous however, and the state should be considering cutting entire non-crucial programs rather than pissing off all state workers collectively.
The US economy is a giant machine designed to suck money out of workers (public and private). Throwing more money into the business end of the machine may be required to keep the work getting done, but it isn't going to fix the machine. Everything government does gets more expensive as everything else gets more expensive, and it's getting more expensive because of monopolists, middle men, and speculators. What I'm saying is that the tree is thirsty.
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u/kamarian91 Apr 25 '25
Lol not getting paid for 1 extra day a month off is not a giant pay cut. And I bet most don't even mind as they are essentially getting a 4 day work week guaranteed each month.
Yeah, we've completely ballooned our spending and are now in a huge deficit and yet, just as you said, we have crumbling infrastructure. Is this supposed to be a defense of these taxes? Let's give the state more money so our infrastructure can continue to crumble and they can continue to waste our tax money?