I am not against unions, and I can support workers who band together to ask for a fair share of company profit. But Governments do NOT have profits to share. The only source of income for a government is taking money from people in the form of taxes. Governments have slowly evolved into the best place to work, with the best wages and benefits. It does not make sense to take money from those who earn less (private sector employees) and give it to those who earn more (government employees). The tail is wagging the dog. It is time to bring government worker compensation in line with the private sector. It will not be easy, it will take a lot of effort to stop the gravy train and drag them, kicking and screaming, into the real world with the rest of us.
I recently heard someone say it is good to pay government workers, even if they are useless, because they spend money to stimulate the economy. I guess this person did not realize that taking money from someone in the form of taxes and giving it to someone else does not create any more money. The person who originally earned the money would be more than happy to spend it themselves, had it not been taken from them. Either way, the money gets spent and goes into the economy, there is no benefit to redistributing the money before it is spent, and in fact, that causes great harm. We have been punishing the producers and rewarding the non-producers in our society, and the results speak for themselves, we now have fewer producers.
Written by Jim Shures
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