Friday, August 12, 2016

I Neeed Candy!

Oregon "needs" a 15% budget increase to meet current "obligations" according to today's Statesman Journal. This means a $1.35 billion budget deficit for the next biennium before the legislators again meet to discover new "needs" and why the rest of us need to "invest" in the state. But let's take a look at some of these "needs":
  • We need to cover massive PERS retirement deficits.
  • We need pay raises for public employees.
  • We need to cover the higher health insurance premiums of public employees.
  • We need $328M for Obamacare.
  • We need $145M for "compensation adjustments" as an anticipated result of public employee pay negotiations. 
What do the rest of us need, especially since the average American family has seen it's real annual income go down by 5.9% during President Obama's tenure? Tell you what, give me 10% and I'm a happy camper!



www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/08/22/real-household-incomes-fall-5-9-under-obama/
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