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It seams 60 or 70 RIU workers will be looking for other employment. If this isn't a negative sign I don't know what is.
As the rest of the Country is learning "the" lesson, RI just can't catch on.
1. Municipal Unions must be reeled in to private sector pay and perk levels. Including all past retirees. With an eye towards reducing numbers.
2. This state must become much more friendly to private and or small business to provide incentive to locate here and or start up here. With solid irreversible legislation.
3. When it come's to the General Assembly, they failed to enact the Governors "tool kit" for addressing individual City and Town that are failing. It's obvious they are ruled by the Municipal Unions.
RI is in a bad, bad place and isn't recovering well at all. I agree with your points above, and I know that point #1 garners much division, particularly with the recent WI elections. But the pensions and double-digit increases in benefits often gained by unions when the taxpayer is suffering to keep a job and their home is distasteful and needs to be reeled in.
Hi all, hope I'm not out of place asking this question. From what I've read so far though, I believe that perhaps I might just get a good response!
Have to admit, I've been blind sided. I have always enjoyed the Northeast Coast, but what's up with the outrageous property taxes in the New England States??? I'm originally from the city of Chicago, moved to the Sf Bay Area years ago. We're currently looking to move and have been thinking about the beautiful textured Northeast Coast. However, I just can't get a grip on why, even the less expensive homes, come with prop taxes - of 3k, 4k, even $6,000 dollars for a 200k-300k home. What's that all about? We were looking to spend a tad bit more than that, OUCH!!! And it seems that the escalation of these property taxes are definitely not lying dormant.
I can't speak for the entire Northeast, but I suspect it's the same reasoning.
In RI...which is a single party State, it's Municipal Unions have had it there way for 50, 60 years without interruption. This has allowed Pensions to escalate to incredible proportions. example: Retirees are retiring at say 42 years of age with 90% of there salary, are now 62 years old, making double what they originally earned, through the miracle of "union backed" COLA (cost of living increase)
Take this number and X's it by tens of thousand retirees, some who were unnecessary in the first place, and BINGO you have Greece! Who pays for this outrageous give away...the property tax payer. You see... in Rhode Island a Municipal job with a pension is called, "hitting it big"
Hi all, hope I'm not out of place asking this question. From what I've read so far though, I believe that perhaps I might just get a good response!
Have to admit, I've been blind sided. I have always enjoyed the Northeast Coast, but what's up with the outrageous property taxes in the New England States??? I'm originally from the city of Chicago, moved to the Sf Bay Area years ago. We're currently looking to move and have been thinking about the beautiful textured Northeast Coast. However, I just can't get a grip on why, even the less expensive homes, come with prop taxes - of 3k, 4k, even $6,000 dollars for a 200k-300k home. What's that all about? We were looking to spend a tad bit more than that, OUCH!!! And it seems that the escalation of these property taxes are definitely not lying dormant.
The answer to your questions are in the post just above yours. With plenty of others through this thread. More people are leaving RI than are coming to RI. Any other New England state would be more desireable, let me suggest the southeast coast of Massachusetts.
The only bright side I see is that it has reached the tipping point of unsustainability, and the pensions are going to be reworked due to bankruptcy of pretty much every city in the state.
Could is not the correct assessment. We will definitely lose a seat within a decade or two. Our state can only gain so much population, then we will complain there are too many people here, for our 1100 square miles plus. If all the current top 5 cities of Rhode Island, outside of Warwick, had the populations of 1940, there would be another 125,000 more Rhode Islanders. Do we have to have a fully built state to deem ourselves successful? It would be a shame to lose the semi-rural and rural areas we have left to housing development
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RI is a welfare friendly, illegal alien attracting state. The money makers are leaving, and only the money takers are staying, and arriving daily.
RI could lose a congresional seat, because other states are growing, and displacing RI position in population. Our population status has nothing to do with geographical size.
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