The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions
May 14, 2010 Filed in: Unions
Column: Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & World
Report The American public
feels it is drowning in red ink. It is dismayed and even outraged
at the burgeoning national deficits, unbalanced state and local
budgets, and accounting that often masks the extent of
indebtedness. There is a mounting sense that taxpayers are being
taken for an expensive ride by public sector unions. The
extraordinary benefits the unions have secured for their members
are going to be harder and harder to pay...