You seem to miss the point.
Whether she pays taxes is irrelevant Her extravagant pay and benefits, including early retirement, are fully funded by the Michigan taxpayers. Any taxes paid comes from taxes paid to fund her.. It's past time that the people (taxpayers) being asked to fund the out of whack contracts sit on a committee and have a say in what these people are to make.
We have a system where politicians use taxpayer dollars to fund unions in a vote buying scam.
I don’t know how 36 years in counts as early retirement. If you get into a system early and stay long you get to retire at a young age. You can do the same thing in the private sector without a union, but you have to put in the time in the same company and pay into retirement system.
She did 36 years in and retired with a little over half her salary. What part of that is so wrong? The fact that she’s “only” 57?
It's like this, in our system people are paid different salaries, and if a retirement system is based on that salary, then that's what some get ~ not everyone ~ but some.
She's getting much more than Jesse Jackson Jr.
I’ve long argued that many of our problems lie at the most local level, with school boards, citizens associations, etc.
I had served on several boards in our county and noticed I was heavily outnumbered by liberal Dems. One thing I’ll give them credit for is putting in their time to go to those board meetings and become involved in the decision-making process.
In the meanwhile, Republicans are at home, working with their own kids and doing their own jobs, running their own businesses. But they are not out in the community, taking part in how their assets are being spent.