All of sudden, highly paid public employees don’t want people knowing what they make. In North Carolina, we learned recently that State Treasurer Janet Cowell refuses to tell the public which retired state employees are pulling down pensions in excess of $100,000 a year and how they earned such nice feather beds.
Now we learn that the Tennessee Valley Authority is refusing to disclose what its highest-paid employees make, even though they’ve done so in the past.
Call me crazy, but I credit the Tea Party movement for the nervousness on the part of tax-paid bureaucrats with salaries and pensions that dwarf those in the private sector, and that’s a good thing. As Thomas Jefferson, said, when the people are afraid of government that’s tyranny, when government is afraid of the people that’s liberty.
