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Honey Queens and Government Crooks
Capitalism fails once again to attract the best and the brightest.
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He's right, however, about too many people. The oversized collection of crooks and slouches in Harrisburg makes Pennsylvania the most expensive state legislature in the nation, and we still end up ranking 37th among the 50 states in job growth and 46th in population growth.
We pay the most, in short, and get the least. It's like paying a Mercedes price for a used Honda.
In the more competitive private sector, the market has a built-in and automatic mechanism for dealing with this kind of bad-as-I-wanna-be theft, arrogance, waste and mismanagement. It's why capitalism works and government doesn't.
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Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.
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