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Like the city workers are going to show up if that’s the case.
The unions must be screaming at the top of their lungs over this, I mean how can they extort money from people making minimum wage now??
Let’s see how quickly the liberal, democrat-voting back-office, do-nothing workers seek other jobs rather than living according to their marxist ideal. Unfortuately for them, due to their marxist ideal being realized at the highest levels, there are no other jobs to be had. And since they have no worthwhile skills to speak of (bad customer service, expertise at delay, confusion, bureaucracy and break-taking), they wouldn’t be hired anyway.
I wonder what the median "City Salary" is?
Oh yeah, guess what political party mayor "we need an immediate 29-78% tax hike" belongs to.
Wait wait wait . . . you mean providing employees with lavish compensation packages and supplying services at far above market rates without the tangible means to pay for either of these things isn’t sustainable?
This city has been run by Dems tied to the mob for as long as I was on this earth. Born 1954
Oh, and another thin, wait till they see the union dues deduction on top of the pay cut.
Government workers will now have to go deal with the inefficiencies of their fellow government workers running the welfare offices. Hope they like the lines from the other side of the counter and enjoy feeling the frustration of the bureaucracy they excel at!
This guy did very thorough homework on the problem.
Hey I know! They could go house to house and beg for donations and if that doesn’t work they can demand them.
Start building or refurbishing commercial real estate just outside Scranton city limits, demand is going to skyrocket!
“The mayor wants an immediate tax hike of 29% and 78% over three years”
I couldn’t imagine being in this mayors position and having the nerve to say something like that.
I’d be too busy assuming everyone I passed on the street was going to punch me in the face.
And deservedly so...
Hope the Dunder-Mifflin office survives.
Oblameo will basically print money to bail all these dem strongholds out.
Every dollar he prints will make every dollar you have, worth less.
See. If they could just increase the taxes of all the billionaires in Scranton everything would be fine. And the trillionaires who live in Scranton too, of course.
Didn’t Bill Scranton, Sr., move to FL long ago? Did he desert a sinking ship?
“The mayor wants an immediate tax hike of 29% and 78% over three years.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
If the city workers complain and want to strike, then give them a 5% raise followed by a 5% earnings tax to show them how things really work.
You’re talking about a police department that spends tens of millions of dollars on salaries for 140 employees. You look at it and it’s not supportable…You’re dealing with a city where the average person makes $28 to 29,000 a year. You’re paying $66 to 70,000 to police and firefighters to start. You can’t support that. You can’t sustain that,” he said.“It’s really as simple as the fact that we have a municipal government and a compensation structure scaled for a city about twice the size. If we had twice the tax revenue, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. The city shrunk, but the government never shrunk.”