Proposed Utica school budget tax hike: 8.42% screams the headline.
This hike on top of the water rate hike, the sewer rate hike, city tax hike, county tax hike, electric rate hike . . .
35 positions are being added . . . on top of the 60 that were created last year. Included are two $100K administrators.
Sorry, but the increase in immigrants simply does not justify this.
The private sector is shedding jobs. The public sector needs to do the same.
The public will only take so much.
With the arrogance being displayed by the UCSD . . . things could get ugly.
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I love how they seem to have pulled the story from the O-D website too.
The basic truth is that the labor of public employment based on union contracts on all levels result in bulit in annual tax increases. Until, public jobs are cut, consolidated and/or restricted from contractural increases, the tax picture here wiil not and cannot improve. As a result, the flight of people and business will not be halted. We are on auto pilot for decline without structural change to our governments.
FYI: OD moved the story from its original location, but it's still available. I redid the link so it works again.
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