A new example of why public unions should be illegal came up in the LA Times yesterday. Jerry Brown is giving the prison guard unions improved benefits. The reason: the union gave $2 million to his campaign. Many people have complained about the wages and benefits of the prison guards for many years. I can understand that it may not be legally possible to break contracts but to give more when the state is practically bankrupt? Brown has been trying to put on ballots propositions to increase tax to decrease the deficit. How is he going to get voters to agree to that with his giving to the union? If Brown has any integrity, he would do the right thing and stiff the union. What are they going to do to him? He is not likely to run again given his age and so if I were him, I would do the right thing and the hell with the people who tried to buy me off. Democrats like Brown say that without increasing taxes, programs for the poor will have to cut. But isn't each dollar you give to your political contributors is one less dollar for those programs?
Of course those Republicans who want more tax cut are no better. The McCourts who own the Dodgers, pending take over of the team by MLB, paid no income tax in 2009! There are rich people who use loopholes and off shore accounts to pay nothing. They are always saying that cutting taxes will create jobs. Then why were jobs lost after the Bush tax cut? Did a tax increase caused the recession? Most corporations are making big profits this past year and their tax have not increased. So why are they not hiring?
The truth is both sides will only complain about the wrongdoings of the other side. A candidate I am looking would be a Democrat who wants to get rid of public unions and decrease the size of government or a Republican who would repudiate Wall Street and get rid of loopholes and tax breaks for the wealthy. I am not holing my breath.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
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Well the candidate you describe would most likely be an independent and therefore would probably never get elected, since we all know it's a two party system. Even the tea party candidates would probably never get elected if they didn't have the GOP backing them.
ReplyDeleteMy thought is that if the public unions get busted that a lobby would be developed anyway. I'm not for or against the unions, but I'm sure that for every union out there, there's a lobby that stands for the opposite that the other party is being fed money with.
Speaking of the McCourts, I blame the both of them for not getting their divorce done quicker so that the Dodgers wouldn't be in this limbo. It's obvious that the off-field problems are a distraction and hinder the team's ability to operate.
-LBOAYM