11 Ways the Government is Making you Poorer

Unions- Labor unions function on a collective bargaining system, where union leaders negotiate set wages for jobs in their industries. The wages are often high, and every worker is guaranteed that pay regardless of his or her individual merit. The labor unions use the State to ensure monopolies on certain industries, and use political pressure to unionize competition. This limits competition and causes the cost of labor to go through the roof. Of course, prices of goods and services to consumers likewise go up. When unions don’t get their way, they try to shut down industry. Public unions are the worst, they actually use their positions as public servants to leverage unrealistic wages and benefits from their own tax payers. Private or public, one thing is the same: unions protect shoddy workers, limit competition, and drive labor costs through the roof, thus costing consumers more money.