[trebb]

Its not my fault my wife & I are doing reasonably well in our business, either, but the president says we must do 'our fair share' and put some 'skin in the game'. Up our taxes go. So I don't see why Linda's 'lavish' retirement salary should be off the table.

A contract is a contract - if you don't want to honor it, you shouldn't have entered into it. If you let people purchase your businesses' services/goods on credit, you have every right to expect them to pay you. Unless you think that if times get tough, their responsibility to pay you should be put on the table...

[skeeter]

Except this “contract” was negotiated by & between two union entities. Making your comparison invalid.

[dangerdoc]

When your union is subsidizing the campaigns of the public officials who are negotiating the contracts, can you say that it is fairly negotiated?

And when those contracts break the backs of taxpayers, should the suffering be one sided all the time?

[dangerdoc]

When a business makes a contract and their financial reality changes, they have the ability to go out of business. These public contracts are treated like the Bible and it is blasphemy to change them when the finincial reality changes.

Face it financial reality has changed.