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Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robin Vos lets us all know what he thinks of those taxpaying Wisconsin citizens who work in the public sector:
The reality is they haven’t had to pay for these things, they’re upset about doing it now, and the taxpayers are the ones who definitely understand this because they get it, they’ve been doing this in the
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What people fail to discuss when they claim that public sector employees get more benefits than private sector ones is that maybe these people do a job that is more important and thus deserve more benefits. Maybe this is not widely believed in our profit-obsessed culture, but each individual teacher and policeman has more responsibility than the average person in the private sector and should therefore receive more compensation, assuming equal levels of training and experience.
The common reply is that no job "deserves" any more or less than any other; the economy bestows the relative merits (and compensation) of each job in a natural way. What this neglects to mention is that the way the economy functions is itself made up of value judgements. The car industry is larger than the bicycle industry because we value cars more than bicycles. Ultimately, we choose how valuable these things are to us by how we spend our money, and that goes for policemen and teachers as well. This fact is impossible to avoid whether you think public sector employees get too much, not enough or just the right amount: all of these opinions rely on value judgements.
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Let this be a lesson to workers, take the wages today, even if it bankrupts the company, there will be no tomorrow when it comes to benefits.
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An Enron analogy is in here somewhere.
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But again, why would I want to guarantee anything, not just education? It would be nice if the world was magic like that though, sure.
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2) I can see why in some way mandating anything is indeed infringing on freedom. That's only a problem if you think that freedom is the only important thing though, as anyone who enjoys having courts and national defense either explicitly or implicitly believes.
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2. I don't see the connection you're trying to make here. And for reference, I didn't say freedom was the only important thing, just the most important.
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