Opinion: Firefighter pay bill burns California taxpayers and exposes GOP hypocrisy
There’s little doubt the state Legislature’s Democratic supermajority embraces fiscally reckless policies, with the free-spending details in the latest $310-billion budget serving as the latest example.
Here’s a stellar example. GOP Assemblyman Heath Flora of the Modesto area introduced Assembly Bill 1254, which is hands down the most irresponsible union-giveaway proposal this year. The bill replaces that bargaining process with a formula requiring state firefighters to earn within 15% of the average salary received in 20 cherry-picked municipal departments.
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