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Article: NO CHECKS ON PUBLIC SECTOR SPENDING.(OPINION)(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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Good Lord, the impacts of a one-party system are truly scary! UW System's faculty and staff are now forced to unionize, and the QEO constraint on Wisconsin teacher's salaries has been removed in the latest state budget.
Unlike the private sector, where the UAW's 1,000-plus pages of work rules brought down a core American industry, no such market influences constrain public unions - the only sector where head count and costs can increase faster than inflation forever.
Is the word "cost" even in the liberal vocabulary? USA Today recently noted one in six U.S. citizens is financially supported today by the public sector. If the private sector were ...