Causes Quote by Charles Duhigg

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

— Josh Mandel

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

— Scott Walker

“it is time for us as a nation to step back and ask ourselves, who is really being treated unfairly — unionized government workers…

— Ben Carson

Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of…

— Charles Duhigg

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector…

— Linda Chavez

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against…

— James Bovard

Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of…

— Michael Barone

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

— Thomas Sowell

I think it's unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.

— Ron Johnson

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.

— Mike Braun

Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They…

— Ann Coulter

Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a…

— Mark McKinnon