Letter: Don't limit cop pay; find revenue
Fifty-seven of the Suffolk County Police Academy graduates are to serve on the Suffolk County police force. (July 11, 2012) Credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa
Why is it that we must "seriously consider a municipality's ability to pay" an arbitration decision regarding first-responders' salaries, but we can ignore the taxpayer's inability to pay exorbitant gasoline prices that allow for oil company executives' exorbitant salaries? ["Arbitration cap sorely needed," Editorial, Feb. 5]
Why limit first-responders to a 2 percent salary increase cap each year, as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed, when a municipality qualifies as distressed? A better idea would be to find ways for government to get more tax payments from oil companies.
