In Iowa, our rent is coming due

It came to me this morning, that the state coffers would swell if we eliminated all state-subsidized housing for all state employees.

Starting with the governor at Terrace Hill, that building maintenance has to be a tidy sum, so we kick her to the curb. She finds her own housing, but it has to be within 30 minutes of her office if she wants to retain her position. Next we toss out our state university presidents, the remodel in Iowa City alone costs in the thousands! Of course UI President Barbara Wilson will need to acquire housing within 30 minutes of her office. How about those residence hall monitors? Dump em’, as the governor says, “we can count on Iowans to do the right thing!” The list of state employees living on our dime goes on and on.

Is this the type of legislative thinking we send people to Des Moines to enact? We are constantly made aware of our shortage of labor, and yet they continue to gut our amenities and wonder why we can’t lure qualified labor to our state. Education? Chop funding. Recreation? defund it. Clean water? deregulate it. Taxation? reapportion it. It is time to hold these legislators feet to the fire for what has transpired in the last six years, and we can start next November by sending people to Des Moines with Iowans’ interests at heart, not the wish list of corporate America.

Kevin Link

Solon