Taxpayers can't afford anymore

To the editor:

Time is now for the teachers union and the government to get realistic.

In a province were the manufacturing sector is taking a beating, (the people paying the bills), and real world wages are either frozen or going in reverse, the teachers' union is asking for a pay raise of three per cent each year and the Province is going to give it to them!

Somebody needs to realize that the public sector and its wages don't operate in a vacuum, they are connected to the overall economy. Here's what the Province and the teachers should be doing. Hold wages where they are and then roll them back three per cent each year for the duration of the contract. Now that is realistic. But I guess as the average Joe paying the bill, we will get stuck with another increase to our education portion of our property tax to go along with all the other tax increases the Municipality, the Province and the feds lay on us.

The average Joe gets screwed again.

Paul Morgan

Bowmanville