> I have some unfortunate news for you: We're already faced with bad/inexperienced employees saturating administrative positions the public sector.

Yes, I was speaking rhetorically. My prediction was really just a reverse-engineered description of the present. This sad reality is partially because these employees aren't allowed to strike.

> You want your municipality attract the same talent as the private sector, and top-shelf public sector workers from other municipalities, do what I do: Say "I could stand to pay more in property tax," show up for your local elections, and approve budget overrides.

None of that means anything if employees aren't allowed to advocate for themselves. The additional money will just get thrown somewhere else in the budget. This is exactly what happens with lottery money: in theory it's meant to support schools, but in practice, the government just lowers school budgets by exactly the amount that the lottery adds so they can use that money elsewhere. The school is basically only in the mix to launder gambling dollars.

We absolutely do need to put more money into our public sector, schools especially, but we need to solve the problem at both ends. A rising tide doesn't actually raise all boats when some of those boats are frantically pumping sea water to their private-sector buddies with sea water businesses.