Governor Mike Beebe & Ladies & Gentlemen of the Arkansas Legislature
October 15, 2013
Why are you preparing to provide most-favored status to Arkansas teachers and their ancillary help?
Your proposals smack of the treatment that Obamacare affords the members of Congress & their staffs, coupled with the SEIU, certain favored corporations, and who knows what or who else.
Teachers on average are paid in salary 20.1% more than their private sector counterparts and that does not factor in the huge number of benefits that the private sector does not enjoy, only 186 working days per year, and of course job protection, i.e. the union protection racket.
Your proposals are a slap in every Arkansans face who are underwriting the failed government school system.
Teachers are not an endangered species, they should pay their way. Like other government types, you can’t run them off with a Louisville Slugger.
The fact that you can pull millions & millions out of various accounts once again proves unequivocally that Arkansans are grossly overtaxed. What you are proposing is nothing short of VOTE-BUYING.
Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith
Cc: citizens