The solution to an out-of-control situation is often to shut it down. The US Government is now completely out of control. In the words of Mike Pence, “time to pick a fight.” If not now, then only when the historic first failure of a T-Bill auction occurs? The big-spenders who argue about where between zero […]

The Democrats are “of the Unions, by the Unions, and for the Unions” and against the rest of us. The US House vote to pass the SOAR act 225 to 195 along nearly perfect party lines show the very clear split in American politics today. The SOAR act support school choice and extends the successful […]

I just told my Congressman that instead of my contemplated $100 increase to my campaign donation, I will scale it back to $1.60. In other words, he should adjust his budgetary aspirations by an insignificant amount. That is the scale of the proposed $61 billion cut to Obama’s  43.69 trillion budget. Insignificant. If the GOP does […]

Collective bargaining? That is an oxymoron. There is nothing in it that is collective, and nothing that is bargaining. First of all, what is collective bargaining? Traditionally it is a process where representatives of the workers (the “collective”) bargain against their “adversaries” — management. The old “labor” verses “management” bargaining table comes to mind. Where […]

When public sector labor unions bargain with the government, both sides sit on the same side of the table. The taxpayer side of the table is empty. Why not give representation on that side of the table to the taxpayers? And who better than as the representative of the taxpayers than a properly nominated delegation […]

The premise of collective bargaining is that workers join together to bargain against their bosses. For public sector employees, the bosses are the taxpayers. The bosses are not government representatives. To have the unions negotiate with government representatives is ludicrous, because in the real world, those government representatives in fact stand for the unions against […]