Posted on 07/12/2011 4:20:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. — Public-sector employees here now are regularly referring to Gov. Chris Christie as "Adolf Christie."
Things got especially ugly when Christie signed legislation that requires each of the state's 500,000 teachers, police and other public workers to pay more for their pensions and health benefits and eliminates the issue for four years from collective bargaining.
In this traditionally Democrat state, Republican Christie was victorious in a legislature with solid Democrat majorities, successfully arguing that the current and projected pension and health benefits for public-sector employees are unaffordable and unsustainable.
Advocating spending cuts rather than tax hikes, Christie pressed the points that Jersey already has the highest real estate taxes in the nation and that actuary studies show the state's pension and health funding is $110 billion short of eventual liabilities. New Jersey taxpayers pay an average of $7,576 per year in property taxes.
Under new legislation, public-sector workers will be assessed a portion of their health care premiums based on how much they earn. After a four-year phase-in period, employees who make $60,000, for instance, will see their annual health insurance payments more than double, from the current 1.5% of salary ($900) to 3.4% for single coverage ($2,040) and more than triple for a family plan to 5.4% of salary ($3,240).
Work A Little Longer
These higher contributions from state employees will amount to "27% of the premium cost for single coverage and 17% for family coverage," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"A Kaiser Family Foundation survey last year found that workers with employer-sponsored health plans paid 19% of the premium on average for single coverage and 30% for family coverage."
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If these morons think NJ is ANYTHING like Auschwitz, they are drama queen ignorant retards.
Public employees do project their intentions against other groups. They are the ones wanting to run every locale like a concentration camp. They’ll cut Social Security to get what they want, and both political parties are competing for their support.
I had no idea that Hitler began his persecution of Jews in Germany by making them pay for 5% of their health care. What a jerk.
What I don’t like about this is that “public-sector workers will be assessed a portion of their health care premiums based on how much they earn”. This is socialism, plain and simple and it is becoming standard practice without a whimper from the right.
Better than the GM bondholders got!
-PJ
This is disgusting. Such melodramatic slurs do nothing but insult the victims of the Nazi regime and desensitize people. What would people say about real Nazis if decent people like Christie are tarred with such accusations? George Orwell was right when abuse of the term had killed the word “fascist” of any meaning, and that was over a half century ago.
Then to the liberal author , water boarding would be considered water skiing .
The author should keep waiting for Obama’s uncle to liberate him from Auschwitz.
That means that 6% of the population is employed in the public sector. But that's an even greater slice of the total jobs and the state's GDP. Disproportionate.
Most people would kill for $270/month for a family medical plan. Not to mention it is a pre-tax benefit so there is a tax advantage to paying one’s own way.
This is typical of liberals
We have HALF A MILLION of these blood suckers here in the Garden State.
That is 2 1/2 times the size of the entire US Marine Corps!
The entire US Air Force, that is scattered over the whole globe, is only 329K - and it has a HUGE mission.
What do these HALF A MILLION Jersey thugs do?
We have HALF A MILLION of these blood suckers here in the Garden State.
That is 2 1/2 times the size of the entire US Marine Corps!
The entire US Air Force, that is scattered over the whole globe, is only 329K - and it has a HUGE mission.
What do these HALF A MILLION Jersey thugs do?
Now I don’t care who you are, that there is funny!
LOL!
“SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. — Public-sector employees here now are regularly referring to Gov. Chris Christie as “Adolf Christie.”
Sea Isles 2011 Budget link below.
http://www.sicta.org/research/newsletters/March11SICTANLV4.pdf
Median income for full time employees was $70,600, over
40% higher than the $49,800 median household income for
Cape May County for 2009 (latest amount available).
See (http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/unemployment/RDList2.asp?ST=NJ).
Some of the pay
Police person $143,955.00
“ “ $132,250.00
“ “ $124,923.00
“ “ $119,866.00
“ “ $114,287.00
“ “ $113,585.00
Admin Job $135,155.00
“ “ $112,749.00
“ “ $111,560.00
And , tell me again what the issue is??
Fail. Godwin’s Law. Geesh, I thought it would take longer than this....
What a slap to the persons, some of which live in NJ, who survived the real Auschwitz.
Actually the term is "progressive rate application".
The result is cross subsidization ~ with higher income employees paying for illnesses suffered by lower income employees.
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