Cut Wages and Benefits for Public Employees

Here's a radical thought. It's not just wrong that a public employee earns more than his counterpart in the private sector; it's wrong for a public employee to be paid on par with his private sector cousin. In fact, as policy, public employees should earn less than their private sector counterparts. Why? There was once another name for a public employee: "civil servant," with the emphasis on servant. The time has come to return to the concept that government workers are servants of the people, and not just professionals who have found comfortable niches at taxpayers' expense. Squeezing financial concessions out of public employee unions and changing aspects of collective bargaining are important first steps, but more needs to be done to redefine the public employee. What Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is doing, in particular, is hacking away all the overgrowth on the trail back to the idea that public employees are civil...(Read Full Article)

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