In their continuing quest to protect their Boardroom Base at the expense of everyone else in the entire state, GOPer State Senator Paul Gazelka from Brainerd introduced what was handed to him Senate File 812, which seeks to cut the pay of everybody - and I mean EVERYBODY that receives a state paycheck. Here's how the bill starts (thumbnail of Section 1 to the right; full photo below the fold):
The salaries of all employees in the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch are decreased by six percent. The salaries of the governor and all constitutional officers, legislators, and judges, except as prohibited by the Minnesota Constitution, article section 5, are decreased by six percent.
And GOPers WOULD whack every State Employee's pay, including employees of the University of Minnesota - except apparently, they can't. Presumably, if they could, they would - otherwise, why would they just "encourage" #UMN to do so? Here's the last line in Section 1:
The University of Minnesota is strongly encouraged to comply with this section as if it were subject to it.
Today, GOPers are "encouraging" all #UMN employees take a hit; down the road, if they can figure out a way, it's safe to assume they'll enforce the hit.
Why are Government Employees on the GOPer's hit list? IMNSHO, it's this: today's GOP refuses to raise income taxes on the wealthiest Minnesotans - their Boardroom Base. The GOP's Boardroom Base does NOT pay the same effective tax rate as the rest of us do - and to the GOP, that's just swell.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: today's GOP is protecting their Boardroom Base at the expense of everyone. Well, at the expense of everyone they can...
And if they figure out how, #UMN employees are next on the GOP hit parade. |
