http://www.nccivitas.org/2011/state-worker-benefits-and-the-budget-crisis-what-do-the-voters-say/ North Carolina's Conservative Voice Wed, 22 May 2013 16:57:27 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.nccivitas.org/2011/state-worker-benefits-and-the-budget-crisis-what-do-the-voters-say/comment-page-1/#comment-2861 Randy Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:39:36 +0000 http://www.nccivitas.org/?p=4985#comment-2861 Private sector employees have to contribute to their retirement plans. They have to pay part or all of their health plans,and currently have to pay for the public sector employees’ fat cat retirement plans through taxes as well. This is not right. Public Sector employees should have to contribute to their own retirement plans like everyone else. And as far as public sector employee’s not getting pay raises, the private sector have been taking pay cuts and losing their jobs.

]]> http://www.nccivitas.org/2011/state-worker-benefits-and-the-budget-crisis-what-do-the-voters-say/comment-page-1/#comment-2779 Jennifer Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:28:17 +0000 http://www.nccivitas.org/?p=4985#comment-2779 I am a worker that will be affected by this. I have no desire to pay MORE out of my check, between taxes, insurance and what not I pay 43% already!!! I am a single mother trying to balance rent, retirement and still keep insurance for my little girl. When is our break??

]]> http://www.nccivitas.org/2011/state-worker-benefits-and-the-budget-crisis-what-do-the-voters-say/comment-page-1/#comment-2770 yellowbird Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:11:49 +0000 http://www.nccivitas.org/?p=4985#comment-2770 How can retirees pay more when there have been no pay raises in several years? Most retirees are not working and rely on their retirement benefits. Of late they are shrinking. No, find some things to cut – not retiree benefits or health plan benefits!

]]> http://www.nccivitas.org/2011/state-worker-benefits-and-the-budget-crisis-what-do-the-voters-say/comment-page-1/#comment-2762 tallen Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:26:21 +0000 http://www.nccivitas.org/?p=4985#comment-2762 I have not run the numbers since 2007, so the disparity today is greater than then as no pay raises have been given since 2006. To raise the pay of state employees in 2007 to where they were in 1973 would require an increase in pay of about 25 percent at the lower end of the pay scale up to more than 45 percent at the higher end. Thus, the people of N.C. are getting a bargain today or were really getting ripped off in 1973.

]]> http://www.nccivitas.org/2011/state-worker-benefits-and-the-budget-crisis-what-do-the-voters-say/comment-page-1/#comment-2761 Will Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:29:17 +0000 http://www.nccivitas.org/?p=4985#comment-2761 How much do those polled actually know about the benefits of a typical state employee? I can tell you it ain’t that great.

]]> http://www.nccivitas.org/2011/state-worker-benefits-and-the-budget-crisis-what-do-the-voters-say/comment-page-1/#comment-2748 NC Highlighted in First-Ever National Poll on Public Employees - Civitas Review Online Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:35:12 +0000 http://www.nccivitas.org/?p=4985#comment-2748 [...] of those individual states polled was North Carolina. In my new article, I discuss the findings of the poll – which revealed similar attitudes toward public [...]

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