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MATT WELCH ON THE REVOLT AGAINST THE PUBLIC SECTOR: ?What?s missing every time this debate comes up?

By Glenn Reynolds

MATT WELCH ON THE REVOLT AGAINST THE PUBLIC SECTOR: “What’s missing every time this debate comes up is any actual defense of the basic and 100 percent undeniable trend line?we are paying much, much more money to deliver government services that (with few exceptions) are not performing any better, and the single biggest line item in that cost increase is employee compensation. The burden of proof is on the people pocketing our taxpayer dollars, and yet they continue to dissemble, whine, and change the subject (and sometimes even shrug), rather than robustly defending the public policy mess they have been instrumental in creating. As long as We Are Out of Money, they (and their apologists) will rightly be on the defensive.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).