“Rush keeps saying the Wisconsin public sector workers are paid twice as much as private but that is clearly not true.”
As far as public school teachers are concerned it certainly could be; here in NJ they can make twice as much just in straight salary, never mind the benefits.
While NJ teachers may be paid very well I doubt that they make twice the average income for the state. NJ income is the highest in the nation, if I am not mistaken. Nor do I know any state where the public employees are paid twice the average income for the state.
If you doubt this see what rates they are hiring people at on their job announcements. It ain’t so great.