“Although Republicans now control both chambers of the statehouse, the tax cuts that squeezed the state budget were a bipartisan undertaking. Then-Gov. Joe Manchin, a Democrat whos now one of the states two senators in Washington, had urged legislators to pursue the tax cuts in 2006, arguing that West Virginia needed to slash taxes on corporations in order to be competitive with other states.”
ObamaCare continues to destroy everything it touches.
"End ObamaCare!" When exactly is the GOP going to keep this huge campaign promise that got most of them re-elected? Funny how this isn't on anyone's radar anymore.
There’s a lot of other places in school budgets where spending could be cut and the teachers get raises.
There was a situation in one town I know of where the retired district superintendent and his retired wife were bringing in
$100,000 in retirement pay each year for doing NOTHING but being retired, at a time when the average wage was around $50,000 per year.
They earned double for doing nothing, well not nothing, they’d go to FL to their place down there for the winter, that my husband was working for full time to bring home for us to live on.
And that was just one couple. that doesn’t count all their friends that they got cush high paying jobs just before THEIR retirement do they could also live comfortably off taxpayers with nice cush retirement pay.
PATCO
When the idea of a statewide teachers contract comes up again in Maine, West Virginia will be the case study to prove it is a bad idea. Maine’s teachers union has some juice in the legislature but I would fear their power if they could control the schools like this.
This isn’t about salaries.
It’s about pensions.
It turns out its easy to fire teachers who don’t want to teach for what taxpayers can afford.
first, why do the teachers and state employees deserve a raise?
What the state needs to get its economy going is some restraints on its rapacious tort attorneys, and the juries who think that they are Santa Claus.
Teachers unions, like government unions, should be outlawed.
If you arent in the teaching profession because you love educating children, get the hell out! And I mean educating, not indoctrinating.
WV has high taxes, the issue is the state has lost so many residents over the last 50 years it has eroded their tax base.
Too dam bad.