New evidence confirms federal
bureaucrats don’t work very hard, paid too much
Townhall Finance – Daniel J.
Mitchell – 12/14/2012
My Cato Institute colleague, Chris
Edwards, put together a remarkable
(and depressing) chart showing that federal bureaucrats get almost twice the
level of compensation as workers in the productive sector of the
economy.
Defenders of the bureaucracy
(including a federal
pay panel dominated by bureaucrats) claim that government employees actually
are underpaid because…well…just because.
My modest contribution to the debate
was to put together a chart based on the Labor Department’s JOLTS data, which shows
that bureaucrats are far less likely to voluntarily leave their jobs than
folks in the private sector, which is very strong evidence that they are being
over-compensated.
Put another way, private employees
spend around an extra month working each year compared with public
employees.
- Six-minute video
describes a bloated civil service
- too many
bureaucrats
- higher pay than
civilian counterparts
- lavish retirement
packages
- earlier retirement
at taxpayers’ expense
- underfunded
benefits
- over-promised
benefits
- scammed
overtime
- scammed vacation
time
- many pensions over
$100,000
- next to impossible
to fire government bureaucrats
- slack rules for
bureaucrats
- very low attrition
for government jobs – they stay on the job because it’s
lucrative
- too many government
agencies should not even exist – they’re
unconstitutional
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