Unions Sues State Over Wage Tax of Teachers Paychecks

Being one of the 66,000 thousand employees that will see their paychecks fall by 1.5% this coming July, I agree with the measure to stop this law from going into effect. Why should educators have to pay the state for its poor management of our retirement fund when double dipping is only too common? Why in a time of difficult economic times should the state board’s mismanagement of the budget be balanced on the backs of educators in this state? When education is becoming more important and classroom sizes are being increased to meet demand why are we facing a wage tax? How does this support quality education and the people who work directly with students? If you plan a wage tax then enact it on administration which earns over $100,000 a year so that it gets to the heart of the problem and stop double dipping of our retirement funds. Also provide more transparency of how our income is invested and provide stricter controls of how that money is invested in the first place.