Saturday, September 20, 2008

Dane County Insists on More Cost for Taxpayers

This is one of the reasons that government costs so much.

The Dane County Board voted Thursday night to require companies that work for the county on contracts worth $5,000 or more to offer health benefits to their employees’ domestic partners. The county already offers domestic partner benefits to its own employees.

If the county was seriously being good stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars, they would have only one requirement for all contracts: that the work be done satisfactorily for the lowest cost.  The placing of layers and layers of political requirements on contracts does nothing but push up the cost for the taxpayers.

(3) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1805 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Yes, but it makes them feel good.  That’s important to liberals.

    The rest of you, cough it up in the name of feeling good.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 20, 2008 at 1920 hrs


  2. So now I have to be patriotic and make liberals feel good?

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    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 20, 2008 at 2230 hrs


  3. It is with the fresh memory of past injustice (2006 GOP political amendment on ‘gay marriage’) that made it correct for the Dane County Board to flex their muscle and undertake acts, even small ones, to further the rights and goals of gay citizens, even in the face of those who wish to continue discrimination.

    Dane County is a leader, as no other county in Wisconsin has had the guts to do so.  And it passed on a landslide vote.

    There are those that somehow wish to tie Ordinance 13 with the outlandish 2006 statewide amendment, and deem the hopes of many in Dane County as ‘unconstitutional’.  But it seems the legal minds behind this ordinance have prepared an airtight measure that cannot be defeated, or undone by those who never see a gay right they do not wish to destroy.

    Why this matters so very much is that Dane County is saying loudly and proudly that the devious work of those who orchestrated the hateful statewide amendment in 2006 will not stop the work for social progressives, and the fight to allow all of our citizens to realize their dreams.

    Posted by Gregory on September 21, 2008 at 1437 hrs


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