No one is against a state using their tax model to provide benefits. This isn’t about that at all. No state is using their state tax revenue so workers can use company provided collective bargaining benefits differently.

No one is against you having that benefit either. But since it comes 100% from the cost of our PWA and 0% from your state taxes, then we need a PWA provision saying what one base gets we all get from the PWA benefit package itself.

If your state wanted to fund a family sick benefit of a million dollars a year tax free with no verification, they are free to do so as well as free to fund it. But that’s not what this is. This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the tax model in your state.

We have a CBA and its benefits that we all pay equally for to generate should be equally accessible to us all.

Beyond that, your state is free to lavish its residents with whatever state funded benefit it wants. Our sick allotment should be able to be used equally in all bases as states don’t fund it at all, we all do.