Lets do the math:

Employee makes 40K a year and puts 5% in and the state matches it.

That’s 4K a year. Lets say the worker does 18 years of service. The total investment is 72K for the 18 years. In a minimum 4% interest bearing annuity ( I have on of these) In 18 years that 72K doubles to 144K. Keep that 144K in an annuity and the yearly interest alone is $5,760.00 .

This is based on 5%.

Knowing that real tax relief for homeowners would continue to be a mirage, after enduring failed State Government leadership for more than 30 years, the 25% reduction in State Employees during Jeb’s time. the probability that Scott would seduce the electorate with empty promises and probably make life even more unbearable for State Employees and most counties doing absolutely nothing to reduce their spending spree and ower their ever increasing taxes, our family sold our 3 homes and departed for greener pastures. I’m happy to report that all of us have managed to obtain very rewarding and high paying jobs in a more progressive state.

The real issue in Florida is not Florida State Government Employees enjoying anything but the lowest of pay so much as it is the impact of bloated county governments throughout Florida who never had any county commissioners challenging their budgets and curbing run-away growth during the 90’s until now. Perhaps counties might even be goaded into giving up their bicycle coordinators, their eagle monitors, siodewalk coordinators and their do nothing environmentalists collecting pay checks for doing nearly nothing so that taqxes might be lowered. It is the county taxes in Florida that are killing the middle class and resulting in annual property tax bills that exceed the average annual mortgage payments of residents.

Scott is merely a dilitant dabbling in government only when it became clear that he couldn’t continue to make millions off of Medicade. I have news for Scott – you can’t significantly impact local county property tax rates and to lie to your constituents that you can is simply fraud. Don’t you fellow Republicans realize that Jeb and Charlie wouild have gladly lowered our property tax rate if they could have???

My solution is what many other folks have chosen and that is vote with my feet. Leaving the sorry state of affairs created by bloated boss-Hogg type Florida county governments was the best thing our family ever did.

Leaving was the best alternative to staying and allowing our personal earnings to be erroded by ungrateful county governments bent on taxing the last dime from each citizen’s pocket.

Good luck Florida as I’m afraid that is your only hope to survive the greed and stupidity of Scott and his hip shooters who haven’t a clue as to the long term ipacts of what they propose.

Meanwhile, I hear people rail against a “public option” and “government controlled health care” and this from folks who are already “in” a government plan. It’s called Medicare. Or Medicaid. Hey,folks…are you ready to give it up? Guess what?

You voted Republican. Now reap the benefits. Starve.

“You will wind up with a dwindling number of active employees who pay for an increasing number of retirees,” Martin said. “Employees will have to continue to contribute more or you will destabilize the system.”

Sounds like a Ponzi Scheme…not surprising that AFSCaM and FEA want to keep it. There is something fundamentally flawed with government employees in a union.

We’ll all be wondering how he won with 5% of the vote. And none from North Escambia.