Hey dimwit. I happen to work for the local government on a blue collar level job, and let me assure you the 52% you say "must have been local government", wasn't us.
For your information, we have been denied merit increases and cost of living raises since 2007, so why would we come to work, when the price of getting here, and food going up, just to service dimwits like you, vote to raise taxes so that we could have more money coming out of our pockets. You must think we're working in D.C..
Next time, before you make such an outlandish statement, go out & take a poll to get your facts first.
You must be a transplanted Yankee.