Posted on 04/23/2010 10:13:33 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees chief Henry Bayer addressed a rally of Illinois unions members on April 21. During his harangue this man revealed the exact sort of logical disconnect in which union thugs everywhere wallow.
Bayer noted that 10% of the workforce in Illinois is out of work. OK, then what was his prescription to solve this situation? More taxes! How even higher taxes on the few lucky enough to have a job could help enlarge the workforce is the $64,000 question. The answer, of course, is that it can't.
Catch this complete lack of common sense and logic in Bayer's spittle specked rant…
"… so they (the legislature) can't do their job, 'you know we can't raise taxes because people are hurting.' And they are absoroo…lutely right. People are hurting. But let me ask you this: if we raise revenue for senior programs will it hurt the elderly? If we raise revenue for childcare will it hurt working families? If we raise revenue for community colleges and universities will it hurt students? If we raise revenue for programs for the disabled will it hurt will it hurt those individuals who get those services? If we raise revenue for public safety will it hurt our communities? If we raise money for schools will it hurt our kids? Yes people are hurting that's why we need a tax increase!"
If this isn't the most stupid blather I've yet heard from a union tough, then I've never heard any. Where does this guy think all those taxes are coming from if not the very people he invokes? Does he think no one that he is interested in pays state taxes? The very people he mentioned are already losing their services because government has spent itself into a hole the size of the Grand Canyon!...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
As a former Illinoisan, I hate to say this, but the state is lost. (Or has been for a long, long time.) I weep for my aunts, uncles and cousins who still live in ILL.
I hate to say that you might be right!
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