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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tess Anderson on March 25, 2011, 07:17:14 PM

Title: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: Tess Anderson on March 25, 2011, 07:17:14 PM
link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x740447)

Not a tax:

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Riley18 (653 posts)        Fri Mar-25-11 05:00 PM
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Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were
 completely and totally sold out by our politicians. We have now been subjected to what amounts to a state income tax only for public workers. As a teacher in Florida where my pay ranks 47th in the nation, I now have the burden of a 3% tax in order to keep working. They also took $150 away from my retirement medical and no more DROP. Sure they have more in store for us after the weekend. The most ironic thing is that Scott is taking from working people in order to grant a tax cut for wealthy Florida homeowners that do not even need the money. I think they just do it for the fun of it. He is beholden to the rich and this "little" tax cut for them is just a token gesture. My fellow teachers and I are just sick and tired of trying to run to second and third jobs just to feed and house our families down here that we are all looking for somewhere that might offer a better life. Most of the options seem to be in other countries. How sad....
 

So leave. :loser:
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 25, 2011, 07:23:23 PM
link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x740447)

Not a tax:

So leave. :loser:

Hell Yeah....it's not like there aren't any old innertubes and drum rafts washed up on the beaches of Florida to leave on.
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: Chris_ on March 25, 2011, 07:26:45 PM
My sister would LOVE a teaching job in Florida.

Beat it, moonbats. :)
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: franksolich on March 25, 2011, 07:29:07 PM
Well, well.

It's a 3% increase in their pension contributions.

Whoop-whoop-dee-doo.
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: PatriotGame on March 25, 2011, 07:58:23 PM
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Riley18 (653 posts)        Fri Mar-25-11 05:00 PM
Original message
Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were
 completely and totally sold out by our politicians. We have now been subjected to what amounts to a state income tax only for public workers. As a teacher in Florida where my pay ranks 47th in the nation, I now have the burden of a 3% tax in order to keep working. They also took $150 away from my retirement medical and no more DROP. Sure they have more in store for us after the weekend. The most ironic thing is that Scott is taking from working people in order to grant a tax cut for wealthy Florida homeowners that do not even need the money. I think they just do it for the fun of it. He is beholden to the rich and this "little" tax cut for them is just a token gesture. My fellow teachers and I are just sick and tired of trying to run to second and third jobs just to feed and house our families down here that we are all looking for somewhere that might offer a better life. Most of the options seem to be in other countries. How sad....

Go get a real job parasite scumbag...oh and pay *MY* taxes for a change loser.

See ya in the responsible productive (non-union) worker line loser...erm...probably not...
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: GOBUCKS on March 25, 2011, 08:47:08 PM
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As a teacher in Florida where my pay ranks 47th in the nation
Over the years, I've lived in several different states, none of which was Florida. Every one, without exception, claimed to rank 47th in teacher pay. I wonder how that can be.
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: Ballygrl on March 25, 2011, 08:54:43 PM
Contributing more to your pension so you'll have a cushy retirement is a tax?
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 26, 2011, 12:34:12 AM
Contributing more to your pension so you'll have a cushy retirement is a tax?

Moonbat math, don't try to follow it, you'll only get hurt.  All of their accounting involves the square root of negative one somewhere in it.
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: Evil_Conservative on March 26, 2011, 12:52:26 AM
Contributing more to your pension so you'll have a cushy retirement is a tax?

Making them pay for something they want for free = tax
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: diesel driver on March 26, 2011, 03:17:33 AM
Making them pay for something ANYTHING they want expect/demand for free = tax

Better.   :II:
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: Doc Savage on March 26, 2011, 07:53:08 AM
In Kansas the teachers pay into KAPERS (that is how it is pronounced anyway).  That is the state retirement fund for the teachers.  THey are exempt from SS deductions, so I think it is a wash.  And, I bet that KAPERS pay a better return on the retirement than SS would, and a 3% increase would pay off bigger in the end.
Title: Re: "Today was a very sad day in Florida. Public workers were" (Riley18)
Post by: jukin on March 26, 2011, 10:57:02 AM
The democrat politicians have been selling out a far greater percentage of their citizens, the taxpayers, for a century.