Kudos to The Washington Post for even asking a question about whether federal workers are over compensated. On October 18th, Lisa Rein and Ed O’Keefe reported on a recent study by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation and Harvard University on Americans’ views of the role of government. The poll found that 52% of American found that “most employees of the federal government are overpaid.”

The only problem with the article is that Rein and O’Keefe don’t seem to have made any effort to see if Americans beliefs about this issue are correct. In fact, they are. … Continue Reading