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Hillsborough County, Florida, 2024 election hijacked by the thug public employee labor unions here (there are now three of them). Yeah, Florida is a "Right To Work" state--just not in the classroom. These unions represent 15,160 public school teachers whose jobs are already guaranteed, and come with extensive employee benefits, since they are already county government employees.

These union thugs just ran over the County School Board (what a joke) and the County Commission (an even bigger joke) and forced a referendum onto the ballot which when passed indentured all 455,000 homeowners in the county with a massive property tax increase to give these entitled teacher-jokes a $6,000 a year salary hike for the next four years ($24,000 per teacher total).

The tax bill for this largesse will be over $456,000,000. This is because the poor darlings' current bonanza salaries "don't match" what other Florida counties offer their teachers. Poor babies.

Welcome to maketplace economics folks, where everyone has to earn the same amount of money otherwise "it's not fair". And guess who voted for this homeowner ripoff? All of the wise and selfless residents who do NOT own homes and pay NO property taxes.

Next, US News & World Report in 2023 published statistics for Hillsborough County as to student performance on math and reading standards. The report found that 61% of the students in the County do not meet minimum required reading and math standards.

Next, if you happen to live here for any length of time you will notice our teachers are home more days than they work, and every time you turn around there is a "no school day" for every conceivable reason, not including weeks off for every major holiday on the calendar, an enormous Summer vacation, and for every false claim that a massive generational hurricane is coming, the schools close in a heartbeat and the teachers get paid vacation number four at the expense of the tax-bashed struggling homeowner.

Florida advertises itself as a "no tax state" but it never tells you that the no-tax on income only applies to residents who are either on public assistance, are apartment renters, or are tourists and snowbirds. God help you if you are stupid enough to buy a house or a condo down here. You are every special interest group's favorite little piggy bank, including the goddamned labor unions who--like the vultures they are--have relocated from the North to warmer climes, and have found fresh meat to feast upon.