Industry with the worst entitlement issues

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As for help, here is an example about the copyright cartels: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/10/ur ... ctual.html

I personally don't know what to make of taxing you based on the miles you travel. From what I gather, though this is subject to change as I learn more about it... my first impression has been that everyone paying into a collective pool helps "Subsidize" our affordable way of life. Note that virtually all goods transported use the highway system, and even a majority of services use the highway system. Whether it be a hotel offering a shuttle to the airport, someone transporting beer from a local brewery, fedex ground delivering goods from SFO airport, or a truck carrying a shipment of TV's from the Port of Oakland to a Bestbuy distributor. By having a pool of people WHO ALL DEPEND on these goods and services either for a livelihood. Just because you can bike to work at your local whole foods grocer doesn't mean that you don't benefit from paying taxes into supporting and maintaining our roads.

My premature feelings on the issue is that this is a tax on productivity, and as always, the lower middle class and middle class who don't live in the city, and businesses are the one to take the boot whereas the liberals and the wealthy who live in the city and enjoy the subway and public transit options that taxes on those who drive provide. The city dwellers benefit the most from this, and when you cancel out the uber-wealthy and uber-poor, the income-gaps are still the widest in urban areas, though strangely they vote the same: Democrat. This is true in SF, LA, NY, Chicago, DC, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Etc. Note: There is no large, thriving middle class in any of these cities. Those large cities can shelter this problem fairly easily, but economically speaking, we live in a multi-polar environment where the big city is no longer the huge engine for jobs or growth...

This policy is to support smart-growth policies of greater density and less suburban sprawl(a leftist utopia) and a future where car-use is greatly minimized. Forget that 90% of employment is not easily accessible by public transportation. The poor move to the suburbs to have a chance at upward mobility and greater opportunities, and this evident by the fact that the greatest employment growth in the past decade came from the suburbs.

Your poll is too simple.

What about defense contractors and diploma mills?

Teacher Unions rank up there as well...

I'd nominate the auto industry, what with Chrysler getting government bailouts twice over the last few decades.

Do you have any idea of the scale of salary cut that I took to return to the public service?

I certainly have a rock solid pension, excellent working conditions and a number of other benefits--but the public service is no place for a looter or a moocher.

There are far richer pickings to be had with far less oversight in the private sector.

Generally speaking, the comparatively better salaries of public workers in clerical/low-level roles are because government pays women and minorities more equitably - the upper echleons of the public service get paid considerably worser than private sector jobs requiring similar levels of formal education. Although I doubt ruveyn will internalize these facts as they're hard to put into one of his concise "conventional contrarian wisdom" epithets.

European farmers.

Or to aquire unique training / experience that pays more later in the private sector.

High-end lobbyists often make their bones by first working for the government and learning the ropes. High end soldiers get the unique training and then make bigger money doing private security. Once upon a time it was a good route for pilots. And it's still cheaper than flight school.