Marginal Revolution: Cutting the fat
Alex Tabarrok blogs on the success of the California prison guards program that attemts to reward guards that get in shape. It is a success of course if you are a guard because the requirements keep getting less and less stringent and everyone gets paid. Only the taxpayers who the government steals from lose. Yipppe....
As a result, the fitness test started to get easier as the bonus got larger. Last year, California shelled out $33.2 million for fitness bonuses and some 80 percent of prison employees, not just guards but wardens and mangers also, now get the fitness bonus. Of course, a test is no longer required - all the employee need do to get the bonus is visit a doctor once per year.
Alex Tabarrok blogs on the success of the California prison guards program that attemts to reward guards that get in shape. It is a success of course if you are a guard because the requirements keep getting less and less stringent and everyone gets paid. Only the taxpayers who the government steals from lose. Yipppe....
As a result, the fitness test started to get easier as the bonus got larger. Last year, California shelled out $33.2 million for fitness bonuses and some 80 percent of prison employees, not just guards but wardens and mangers also, now get the fitness bonus. Of course, a test is no longer required - all the employee need do to get the bonus is visit a doctor once per year.
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