As Governor Malloy’s approval rating sinks to 38% as
announced today through the Quinnipiac poll,Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker accomplished a major victory for
taxpayers through the State Supreme Court’s ruling this week giving him the
authority to end the collective bargaining rights of State employee unions.
In contrast, Connecticut’s
Governor Dan Malloy, the self-proclaimed Son of Organized Labor, continues to
allow State employee unions to hold the state and its taxpayers hostage to
their demands as taxpayers face the highest tax increase in the state’s history
of $1.5 billion.
The end of collective bargaining in Wisconsin
is in essence a transfer of power from WisconsinState
employee unions to those whom voters elected to state office.Wisconsin’s
Governor and State legislature now have the ability to manage their State’s
finances and personnel to the benefit of Wisconsin
taxpayers and the State as a whole.
As the Governor of Wisconsin
achieves success, Governor Malloy’s
theme song of “Shared Sacrifices” was removed from the top 10 list and will not
win a Grammy.
The
Governor needs to start humming another tune as the nonpartisan State Office of
Fiscal Analysis (OFA) in their report recently declared that they lack the
information to verify the alleged savings in the state employee union contracts
which Governor Malloy negotiated and is so anxious to have signed guaranteeing
4 years of job security and a 9% wage increase to state employees along with
enviable health and pension benefits not found in the private sector.News sources report that the OFA “can vouch
for less than 40 percent of the $1.6 billion in labor savings figured into the next biennial budget, and are unable to
assess the rest--more than $1 billion--because of unanswered questions or
insufficient data.”
Where Malloy’s budget is built on speculation, there is one
guarantee - $1.5 billion in new state taxes are on their way and a substantial
increase in property taxes could follow in a year or two.
Where Malloy’s budget is built on speculation, State
employee union contracts are legally binding documents! With a lock
on state union wages and job guarantees and the OFA’s
inability to find the savings within the union contracts negotiated , Malloy’s
limited resources could ultimately result in a cut to municipal aid and in turn
an increase in property taxes.