Macfarlane says that our
benefits took 12% of payroll tax in 2000, in 2011 its 29% of the payroll
tax, and 42% in 2017!
We need some independent verification of these
numbers!
ACTUALLY THESE NUMBERS CANNOT BE CORRECT BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN PAYING FOR OUR HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF!
ACTUALLY THESE NUMBERS CANNOT BE CORRECT BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN PAYING FOR OUR HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF!
6 comments:
It's easy to make the numbers look larger by only including the payroll tax. As a per cent of the entire budget they would be smaller. Besides revenues will increase eventually.
The only numbers on the number line that lie are statistics.
Yes I agree, this "% of payroll tax" rhetoric (which was also used with the budget tool) is BS. The payroll tax represents 55% of the operating budget.
True enough, seems to me. But operators haven't been paying full health costs, have they? Just the difference by which the premium increased?
Yes. We are paying increases which means trimets health care cost has not increased since that was imposed.
Oh right, got it. Well, that's not inconsistent with their claim (2009-2011 could be about the same share of payroll tax, right?) but yeah, I'll see if I can track this down.
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