This chart is another shining example of how public-sector union benefits are bankrupting states across the nation. James M. Hohman, a fiscal policy analyst with the Mackinac Center’s fiscal policy initiative, visually demonstrates a decade (2000-2010) of Michigan lawmakers caving to unions’ incessant demands for more benefits. These costs ultimately toppled the state’s economy and stuck taxpayers with the bill
The chart below is another shining example of how public-sector union benefits are bankrupting states across the nation. James M. Hohman, a fiscal policy analyst with the Mackinac Center’s fiscal policy initiative, visually demonstrates a decade (2000-2010) of Michigan lawmakers caving to unions’ incessant demands for more benefits. These costs ultimately toppled the state’s economy and stuck taxpayers with the bill (Click image below to see full size):
“Without a conscious policy direction, the value of state and local government employment benefits grew substantially in the past decade without the means to pay for it,” Hohman wrote on the organization’s blog. “It’s a problem that deserves review, regardless of public employee protests.”
