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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cut their salaries. Increase their health care costs. Reform pensions.

Enough is enough. The entire DMV economy is going through a recession.  They can't keep bleeding taxpayers to enrich themselves.  Taxpayers are not cash cows with unlimited money they can bleed dry. They're lucky they simply have a job.

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MCPS employees are not "enriching themselves" but compensation costs are too high given the stagnant tax base. If tax revenues crater due to DOGE things will get really bad fast and the more they increase spending now, the fewer options we will have in the future [/quote]

If you are raising salaries while the entire economy around you is crumbling and there is massive job loss, you are enriching yourself. Period.  MoCo cops and teachers are lucky they even have jobs and a salary.  The idea of raising taxes so they can get salary boosts while everyone else is unemployed is absolutely DISGUSTING.  They can pound sand. They have some money to buy food while there is about to be thousands of people that have $0 to buy food. And they want people with $0 to pay more tax? F YOU. [/quote]

Except this year, we are seeing the public sector tank first, and in domino effect, as the federal level affects the state level, and the state level affects the local level. Given the tremors in the economy, why doesn't Elrich pull back to the rate of inflation - 2.5% --  on salary increases? But, no...he has the teachers' union to court for an endorsement as an at-large council candidate next election.

I'm not condoning or condemning the raises because I don't know what went into the determination, but I can say that government generally lags behind the private sector by at least a year. So if everyone in the private sector got good raises last year, it tends to hit public sector employees this year, because they have to wait to see how tax revenues are coming in.  In the same vein, it takes about a year for public sector salaries to tank, after it tanks in the private economy. [/quote][/quote]

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