Dear Anonymous. « Fred Klonsky

Dear Anonymous. « Fred Klonsky:

Dear Anonymous.

by Fred Klonsky

Dear Mr. Klonsky:
Reading your post reveals the dishonesty of the teachers’ union mantra that “we’re doing it for the kids.” Instead you just want better compensation and working conditions. Why not admit it?
Moreover, you don’t seem to realize that taxpayers are over-taxed. Your friends in the Illinois legislature increased our income taxes 66%. Federal income taxes are going up. And in “progressive Park Ridge” (whatever that means) property taxes go up by healthy margins every year.
Those of us who balk at a +3.6% increase in teacher pay have nothing against teachers. We think