Saturday, November 12, 2011

An empty victory for Ohio unions

EDITORIAL: An empty victory for Ohio unions - Washington Times
Cutting spending is the way out of the trap. Public-sector unions make that difficult when they insist on benefits that far exceed what taxpayers can afford to pay.
The fundamental problem with collective bargaining for the public sector is that the people who actually pay the bills - the taxpayers - never get a seat at the table.
Deals are hammered out between politicians and unions, who are not necessarily adversarial toward one another.
This results in deals that are fiscally unsustainable, and we end up with Greece at a national scale or municipal bankruptcies at the local level.

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