Today’s WSJ has an excellent piece on “The Government Pay Bonus.”
Government employees tend to be paid more than are comparable private sector workers, but that’s not the whole story. Many of them are paid well for doing things that shouldn’t be done at all. The bureaucrats in the Department of Education don’t educate; if anything, the regulations they enforce get in the way of more effective education.
The great libertarian writer Frank Chodorov said during the McCarthy era, “If you’re worried about communists in government jobs, get rid of the government jobs.” I’d update that to, “If you’re worried about overpaid workers in government jobs, get rid of the government jobs.”
