WA Public Employees Get Raises, But Taxpayers Get Tax Hikes and $2.6 Billion Deficit?

Dec. 16, 2009 - PRLog -- Just as Washington public officials plan tax increases to cover a $2.6 billion shortfall, Seattle management consultant Terry Corbell criticizes their planned 2010 salary increases for 21,000 workers which will cost taxpayers $83 million.

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” Albert Einstein once said, according to Mr. Corbell. Unfortunately, he says, Washington officials are repeatedly using fallacious thinking.

“The state is planning tax increases after losing 166,500 jobs and the unemployment rate is still 9.2 percent, which does not include the under-employed or those folks whose benefits have expired and can't get a job,” he says. “But more than 21,000 state workers are getting a raise – as high as 5 percent – costing state residents an aggregate $83 million amid a budget deficit of $2.6 billion?”

Mr. Corbell writes it’s time for government reform for good government, in his column entitled, “Do Washington’s Budget Woes Warrant Government Reform?” (http://www.bizcoachinfo.com).

“At stake are the economic and political liberties for the average businessperson and consumer,” he writes.

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Mr. Corbell has written about 500 business-coaching columns since 2001 for several media Web sites and is a member of SABEW, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

New York Times columnist Brent Bowers featured him twice. First, the New York Times columnist profiled him. Then, for a second issue, Mr. Bowers asked him to take questions from the newspaper’s readers. It resulted in an avalanche of readers seeking Mr. Corbell’s business advice.

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Biz Coach Terry Corbell is a business-performance consultant and profit professional. As a longtime media columnist, he publishes performance-enhancing strategies at The Biz Coach: http://www.bizcoachinfo.com, Proven Solutions for Maximum Profits.