Negative Space: government lobbying
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- The Forbidden History of Terrible Taxes
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“Your own government shouldn’t be the reason you struggle to make ends meet.”
“If the history of taxes tells us anything, it’s that we haven’t learned anything from history.”
- Governor Chris Christie: Letter to the NJEA
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Chris Christie is running up against the same problem we have in California with the prison union and other public unions: the government is funneling money for various programs directly to lobbyists who lobby for more money which then gets funneled into lobbying for more money. Taxes go to lobbyists who lobby for more taxes. It’s even worse when some of the lobbyists are also in control of classrooms.
I hope he’s more skilled than Schwarzenegger at breaking the vicious cycle of the government lobbying itself for higher taxes. At least he’s publicly recognizing the problem. “What are they doing with the money?” Lobbying the…
- Government Unions vs. Taxpayers
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“Public employee unions contribute mightily to the campaigns of liberal politicians ($91 million in the midterm elections alone) who vote to increase government pay and workers. As more government employees join the unions and pay dues, the union bosses pour ever more money and energy into liberal campaigns. The result is that certain states are now approaching default.”
- The Fragile Left
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“The very concept of public-sector unions is absurd. They’re not collective bargaining entities, fighting to save oppressed workers from exploitation. They’re pumps designed to siphon money out of taxpayer pockets, organs of the ruling political party begging itself to raid the treasury and use the money to buy more votes.”
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Are the corruptions of powerful government a symptom of the system, or a symptom of the imperfection of man?