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Big Government: What To Do With Lifetime Unelected Bureaucrats?
A USA Today headline read “Many Federal Employees More Likely to Die Than Be Fired.” It reported that federal employees were fired at the rate of 0.55%, a rate so low that deaths outnumbered firings. Two significant agencies had zero firings. Should any American have a property right to a federal job for life? Citizens elect…





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