Posts Tagged ‘State Budget Solutions’
Forced-Unionism States’ Unfunded Pension Liabilities Equal Nearly a Third of Their Combined GDP
A new report by State Budget Solutions (or SBS, see the link below) adds to the evidence that, as good as government union officials empowered with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges are at pushing for higher taxes, they are even better at jacking up governments’ long-term spending commitments. As a consequence, states that give more special…
Read MoreFact Sheet: More Debt, Higher Taxes
Eight of the Nine States With the Highest Government Debt-to-Income Ratios Lack Right to Work Protections (Click to download fact sheet) By Stan Greer As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades. As recently as 1981, the first year…
Read MoreNone of the 12 States With the Greatest Total Public Debt Per Capita Has a Right to Work Law
For several years now, the nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group State Budget Solutions (SBS) has been issuing annual reports on state finances that present “an all-inclusive view of state obligations not conventionally presented but that both lawmakers and taxpayers nonetheless must confront.” The 2014 report, linked below, compiles data on each state’s “market-valued unfunded pension liabilities,…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Encumber Citizens With More Debt as Well as Higher Taxes
Total Debt as a Share of Annual Personal Income 50% Higher Than in Right to Work States (Click here todownloadFact Sheet) As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades. As recently as 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected…
Read MoreNone of the 13 States With the Greatest Total Public Debt Per Capita Has a Right to Work Law
State Budget Solutions’ third annual State Debt Report shows total … Â Just before Labor Day, the nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group State Budget Solutions (SBS) issued its third annual report on state public debt, which calculates “the total amount of debt each state faces.” (See the link above.) The new report compiles data on every state’s “regular…
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