The issue is not so much government employees, as it is unionized government employees, or in fact unionized employees of any sort. Unions take away the incentive to work because they make it impossible to fire unproductive employees.
“The issue is not so much government employees, as it is unionized government employees, or in fact unionized employees of any sort. Unions take away the incentive to work because they make it impossible to fire unproductive employees. “
Partly. But my beef is with bureaucracies more than bureaucrats. No matter who staffs them, there is a relentless urge to expand turf and increase size. They are constantly looking for more things to do. As their mandate is usually to “help” me with more “useful” regulations and other interferences in my life, the relentless expansion of their turf both increases my taxes to pay for all the new helpful people they have to employ and the time I have to spend dealing with all their “useful” interference.
That’s why it doesn’t matter if the bureaucrats are “good” or “bad.” A bureaucracy has a dynamic all its own that is pernicious regardless who staffs it.
And that’s why cutting an agency’s budget does nothing. It just expands later. One has to eliminate the agency altogether so there is noone cheering to make it bigger and do more things to “help” ModelBreaker every year.