Raise taxes (on wealthy) and pension problem is over
The Wall Street Journal has led the charge to gin up the pension crisis and take away collective bargaining rights for public employees.
“Peter robbed Paul to pay Mary, unfortunately,” said Detective Don Edwards, president of the Police Benevolent and Protective Association at the Springfield, IL PD. “You know, the money has come in through property taxes and whatever other levies they’ve had over the years, and they’ve decided to spend that money on other things and again make minimal pension payments as opposed to what they should have with their obligation.”
Watch Don’s comments on a local television station.
Meanwhile the propaganda war continues. “Pension Pinch Busts City Budgets” was the headline of a Wall Street Journal article last week that used Springfield as a prime example of how police and fire pensions can eat up and dominate a budget.
This is the kind of misinformation campaign that demands a response from the police union. Write an op-ed piece, call a press conference, get a public finance expert from a local university to make your case – fight the lies with the facts.
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