It's not that the purpose of government is to provide swimming pools. But given the choice, shouldn't we be cutting the fat around the bureaucrats before we cut something that benefits the public far more widely?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Taxpayers soaked -- and without pools!
I think we have had about enough of government officials cutting services while clinging to outlandish perks of office. The city of Louisville wants to close swimming pools rather than reduce the number of government employees driving home in expensive taxpayer-provided cars. A letter to the editor in today's Courier Journal lays out the details very nicely:
It's not that the purpose of government is to provide swimming pools. But given the choice, shouldn't we be cutting the fat around the bureaucrats before we cut something that benefits the public far more widely?
It's not that the purpose of government is to provide swimming pools. But given the choice, shouldn't we be cutting the fat around the bureaucrats before we cut something that benefits the public far more widely?
