The power of the California teachers union is costing taxpayers $22 million a day in debt.
Debt has grown an impressive $25 billion since Governor Jerry Brown took office in 2011. … it just keeps growing, like “a gigantic financial tapeworm” — the way Warren Buffett’s 2013 investor letter described America’s public-pension problem.
Union officials chalked up a staggering 3,633,290 hours of taxpayer-funded union time in 2016, at a cost to taxpayers of over $177 million in payroll costs alone for just that one year. This includes, for example, over $700,000 spent on travel expenses for union bosses in the Social Security Administration.
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