Showing posts with label benefits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benefits. Show all posts
The Latest Scam From California's Public-Sector Unions
by Steven Greenhut. If California voters grant the state government the massive income-tax and sales-tax increases that Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats have been demanding via November’s Proposition 30, those same officials will quickly squander the money by shoveling even more benefits to those already well-compensated ... MOREJohn Stossel: We Fund Dependency
"There are no jobs!" That is what people told me outside a government "jobs center" in New York City. To check this out, I sent four researchers around the area. They quickly found 40 job openings. Twenty-four were entry-level positions. One restaurant owner told me he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply. It made me wonder what my ... MORERobert Rector: How Poor Is 'Poor'?
What's it mean to say 46 million people live in poverty? Yesterday morning, the U.S. Bureau of the Census released its annual report on income and poverty, saying that some 46.2 million Americans –15 percent of the population — were poor in 2011. The poverty rate did not fall from the prior year but remained at a near record high, the agency said. ... MOREVIDEO: California Taxpayers Soaked By Lifeguards
Exposed: California lifeguards paid $200,000 and retire at age 50.
Todd Myers: Plastic Bag Bans: Another Feel-Good Eco-Fad
Banning the bags may be net negative for environment. Across the country, cities are joining the latest environmental trend – banning plastic grocery bags. Concerned about the amount of plastic that reaches our oceans and the impact on wildlife, communities have decided that banning the bags is a simple and environmentally responsible ... MOREVIDEO: Gov't Ad: Food Stamps Make You Look Good
Government spends millions on radio ads to stimulate more handouts.
Walter E. Williams: Duped By Congressional Lies
In the name of fairness or generational theft? Some of the responses to my column last week, titled "Immoral Beyond Redemption," prove that Americans have been hoodwinked by Congress. Some readers protested my counting Social Security among government handout programs that can be described as Congress' taking what belongs ... MORE
Kyle Olson: Are We Slaves To The Government Class?
Public servants or public masters? Over the past year, a lot of people have been talking about “the 1%” versus “the 99%.” But if you’re concerned about one class exploiting another for economic gain, that’s the wrong way to look at the problem. The protesters are right about one thing: there are gross class inequities in America. There is one class that ... MORE
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