Once again proving that public employes unions are bad for the public.

Gov. Eliot SpitzerÂ’s plan to contain the rising property taxes that support New YorkÂ’s schools could mean a confrontation with the stateÂ’s largest teachersÂ’ union, whose president said on Thursday he was wary of a new commission leading the effort.

Richard C. Iannuzzi, president of New York State United Teachers, said he was also wary of the panelÂ’s chairman, Thomas R. Suozzi, named by the governor in his State of the State address on Wednesday.

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. . . Mr. Iannuzzi said of a property tax cap, “I’m not going to let a blunt instrument butcher the progress we’ve made.”

In other words, it doesn't matter if the taxpayers are being bled out by sky-rocketing taxes -- the needs of public employees come ahead of the needs of the public.

And I say that as a teacher who knows that teacher salaries need to be increased -- but that the first priority should be making our school districts less wasteful, more efficient, and free of redundant administrators. Few businesses could operate the way most school districts do.

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