Public Opinion and Self Government

My mother and I were in a discussion the other day on why government workers don’t see any fault in the way they accept subsidies or pay raises without taxpayers’ consent. This is because it is their kickback. Many people fail to realize that almost every person in America is receiving some kind of kickback from a government policy or program, whether that policy be costly or cost-saving for taxpayers.  Each issue in public policy is of course going to have at least a few supporters, but what happens when its supporters are exclusively benefitting economically from the existence of the policy?

Let’s take a look at some of the more obvious examples.

 The average federal workers’ compensation in the last 10 years has skyrocketed to well over $100,000. Understandably, federal workers would be in favor of these salary rates and ardently against cutting federal salaries. This is an obvious example because federal workers working to lower the average federal worker’s salary would be working to cut their own salary.