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Scranton, PA, who owes back wages to city employees,
has found a way to pay it with interest... from the wallets
of property owners.
City property tax will be raised at least 33%
Hmmmm isn't that curious. It's kind of like using electricity for 6 mos and then declaring you never intended to pay the bill, but blame the electric company employees for your 'persecution'.
And I look at the people who are paid big bucks to manage, to mind ledger books, and to mind long term goals.... all hobbled by irrational legislators making mockery of the job. But the legislators don't pay for their mistakes. Do they? Why is that so? How can it be that bloviating authority can be so many times over removed from consequence, or responsibility, for their actions? Why, you'd almost think they were a corporation!
You need to understand the history of this. Scranton has been in financial troubles for more than a decade. The Unions didn't want to budge on compensation during negotiations so it ended up going to abitration. The arbitrator did not have to consider the dire financial situation of the city and it's ability to pay and awarded the Unions a very favorable award of something like 30 million dollars.
So on top of already being in financial trouble they are in more trouble and really have lost control of anyway to bring it under control because the biggest expense of course is the police and fire fighters.
FYI the tax hike is proposed long before they started paying minimum wage. The minimum wage was actually result of budget battle between the Mayor and the Council. They didn't have any money to pay them, at some point in time they did get a full pay check as there was some unexpected revenue.
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