Letter to Editor: Cut pay and benefits first

Editor: California is the third highest tax state in the nation. Middle class workers are fleeing the state to escape the stifling regulations and taxes.

[butte]

again with your "it's the public servant's fault" rhetoric! enough already!

[Sensible]

Hey, I agree with him. Where else can you work and receive a pension that is so large and not have to worry about saving any of your own money for retirement? This is coming off our backs and needs to end. Simply working for the gov. in ANY capacity does not merit the benefits they receive. As for public safety personnel, there are statistically many more careers out there that are far far more dangerous even than our most dangerous gov. jobs and these people have to save their own hard earned money for retirement. They don't look to the tax payers to fund them!

[lil jenny]

It's NOT the employees fault since most of the city/county/government employees ARE middle class! How about we look at what this stupid state is actually doing with the money that us taxpayers are paying!! And let's not forget that the city employees are took a paycut and are also doing furlough days too. These people have families just like you and pay their taxes just like you. Their jobs aren't secure either ya know?

[Dave Slimmer]

This is a bunch of crap.. Tehama county workers have to buy their own health insurance after retirement, and the average county worker is low to low middle class at best. Some full time workers have even qualified for low income housing in the past.

Stop printing/posting misleading information, grow up and be truthful or just go away...