Tea Party Patriots of W Oakland's Blog – December 2011 Archive (4)

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States Expand Lucrative Pensions to More Jobs

As states tighten budgets and prepare to address massive deficits, special retirement benefits are constantly being extended to additional groups of workers.  While the exclusive packages were once reserved for police officers, firefighters and other public workers in dangerous areas, tens of thousands of state workers such as park rangers, dispatchers, coroners, even highway laborers, museum guards and…

The Obama administration has poured roughly $5 billion in taxpayer funds into the electric-car industry, offering incentives to manufacturers, their suppliers and even car buyers who might want to go green.  But analysts say the risk is rising that taxpayers in many cases will not see a return on their money soon, if ever.  Instead, they warn that some federally subsidized companies could be forced to shut down in coming months,…

Municipal "Millionaires"

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, under enormous pressure from public-employee unions and Democrats in the state Legislature to extend New York's "millionaires' tax," is considering at least some higher taxes on higher incomes.  The big irony here is that much of the money raised from any "millionaire" tax hikes would go to fund the growing phenomenon of public-sector millionaires, says Lawrence…