The Long Beach Post of Long Beach, California has begun publishing the salaries of all city employees, with names too, on their website. Check it out here.

I think this is a splendid idea. Shouldn’t employers know how much they’re paying their employees? Well, in the case of public-sector workers, We the People are the employers. What’s wrong with us knowing how much our employees are being paid?

I shall agitate for my own township to publish similar data. It would be instructive for the federal government to follow suit. For true comparisons we should of course have some details of health and pension benefits, too.