The voters keep voting these dopes into office. They seem to think that there is a big pot of money out there to pay for the pensions and everything else. So they are OK with politicians who promise the world to favored groups like teachers. Somehow, the voters don’t get the fact that they will end up holding the bag. The “rich” aren’t going to be able to cover the tab no matter how high the politicians raise tax rates.
The state of ILL n annoyed.
They just believe that good intentions always trump disastrous results.
Paying huge populations of people not to work will never end well.
Someone like to paint pretty pictures...and it's not the teachers.
7.25% is moonshine too
My Socialist brother and I have had this argument. In California, prison guards can retire with full pension, after 25 years. He said that was good, because they were in a dangerous job. I pointed out to him, that a prison guard can retire at 50 and draw full pension. His replacement can also retire at 50. So, if the first guard is still living at 75, that would mean they are paying three times the budget, for one prison guard position. I couldn’t convince him that no state could afford that. Their virtue-signaling ‘altruism’ clouds any rational judgement they might have.
“Liberals never seem to think their actions will have consequences.”
For the most part there are no consequences - to them. It’s the rest of us who pay with higher taxes, higher crime rates, fewer rights protected, and fewer places to run to.
they don’t that is why they get by with it, no law, no country, fake bs from mankind..same story..got Jesus?