Tax avenger takes message to
small-town WI
Wisconsin Reporter – Ryan Ekvall – 8/21/2013
Please read the entire
article because we’re obviously not getting what we’re paying for.
John Granchay, a government
retiree and former school board member, confronted Tobin, saying he worked hard
for his pension.
EXCUSE ME: John Granchay, a
WRS retiree, confronts Tobin on his inflated pension estimates
“I’m still working,” Tobin
answered. “I’m going to have to work until I drop to pay your pensions.”
“What did you do for a
living that you earned your pension?” Granchay asked.
“I don’t have a pension,”
Tobin said. “Don’t you get it? People in the private sector don’t have pensions
anymore.”
One state employee brought
Tobin’s Shawano-riverfront house property tax records to the meeting to expose
what he called the tax-fighter’s “true” motive, an ax-to-grind with the city.
“Our property taxes here
went up from $4,000 to $6,700 in one year. The schools went crazy with tax
increases.”
Tobin organizes strikes and
demonstrations, distributes fliers opposing all referendums to increase
property taxes. He takes on politicians and government employees – whom he
calls “bloodsuckers” and “special interests,” respectively.
“They don’t like it when we
release the salaries. They don’t want folks to know who’s getting the stolen
money,” Tobin said. “They expect us to keep working and working and paying and
not complaining. They were upset (Monday) night – ‘Oh, you’re complaining,
you’re so negative.’ Well, of course I am. (They’re) robbing us blind.”
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