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KOPP THE CUSTARD MAN HAS JOHN HINDERAKER SOUNDING LIKE A NEO-MARXIST: The Democrats? ?stimulus? b?

By Glenn Reynolds

KOPP THE CUSTARD MAN HAS JOHN HINDERAKER SOUNDING LIKE A NEO-MARXIST:

The Democrats’ “stimulus” bill was a joke. Much of the money never has been spent, and most of what was spent went to state and local governments to subsidize the salaries of public employees, the Democratic Party’s core constituency. Consequently, the public employee boom continued as the recession deepened.

If you are a government employee, you have little reason to favor tax cuts: taxes pay your salary. As confiscatory taxation and over-regulation strangle private enterprise, the government is presented with endless excuses to increase public employment as a supposed response to the crisis in the private sector. It is a vicious cycle, but one that inevitably comes to an end. The goose stops laying eggs, or, as Margaret Thatcher put it, eventually you run out of other people’s money.

In the meantime, the sharp conflict we are experiencing between government and the private sector is almost enough to make a neo-Marxist out of me. We have an oppressive ruling class–the government and its foot-soldiers, members of AFSCME–and an exploited, subservient working class, those who toil in the private sector for wages that currently average only around one-half of what our ruling class, government employees, are paid. The tick, in other words, is now faring much better than the dog.

Workers of the private sector, arise! You can no longer afford to keep your public sector masters in the lavish style to which they have become accustomed.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 27, 2010 (boomark / email).