auditor0007
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That is because many do not understand issue 2. It is like anything else in politics.
One side uses fear tactics to make people think that our safety is at risk, and the other side tries to get the point across that A yes vote on Issue 2 will make long overdue reforms to unfair and costly government practices in Ohio, while helping to get government spending under control and making government more accountable to taxpayers.
official arguments FOR/YES issue 2
Official arguments for and against Ohio Senate Bill 5 Veto Referendum, Issue 2 (2011) - Ballotpedia
Official argument against/NO on issue 2
OMG we are all going to die by the hand of "big corporations"
I am voting YES No really I am voting YES
A yes vote on issue 2 is a vote against teachers, firefighters, nurses and police. That's all you have to know and that is how the repeal is going to be successful.
Vote no on issues 2, vote for teachers, firefighters, nurses and police.
Yeah.
You are really buying that? Senate Bill 5 is about stopping the crazy government spending. There needs to be accountability to the ones who are employed by the state. It has gone unchecked for far too long
A YES vote on Issue 2 will make long overdue reforms to unfair and costly government employment practices in Ohio, while helping to get government spending under control and making government more accountable to taxpayers.
Your YES vote on Issue 2 will:
Protect Good Teachers and Improve Our Schools
Issue 2 keeps the best teachers in the classroom by ending the unfair practice of seniority-based layoffs, which forces struggling schools to cut many of our best teachers first.
Issue 2 returns control of our schools to taxpayers by bringing increased transparency to teacher contract negotiations.
Issue 2 enables schools to retain and reward good teachers by allowing them to base pay raises on job performance.
Restore Balance and Ensure Fairness
Issue 2 ensures that government employees receive quality health care, but asks them to pay a mere 15% of their health insurance coverage which is still less than half of what the average private sector worker pays (31%).
Issue 2 asks government employees to make make a fair contribution (10%) to their taxpayer funded retirement plans instead of requiring taxpayers to provide these pension benefits for free. Many private sector workers get no retirement benefits at all.
Issue 2 allows good job performance to be considered when awarding pay raises to government employees. Private sector workers earn their paychecks by doing a good job, and so should government employees.
Get Spending Under Control, Retain Jobs, and Protect Taxpayers
Issue 2 will save our communities millions of dollars annually, helping them balance their budgets and retain jobs.
Issue 2 will protect taxpayers by giving them the right to reject unaffordable government employment contracts.
Lazy union and government employees are a blite on our employment situation in Ohio
Here is one argument against this, just one simple one. When you remove seniority as a provision to layoffs, then it becomes pretty automatic for cash strapped systems to lay off the highest paid teachers first, regardless of ability. It just becomes a numbers game where the ones making the most get cut first and replaced with younger, lower paid employees down the road. It's always a good thing to look at both sides of the issue.