Austin Watch: Your Tax Dollars At Work

Here’s an interesting job opportunity. Your taxpayer-funded Austin Public Library job is to write letters to legislators telling them how much you appreciate getting earmarked taxpayer dollars from them. Presumably so they’ll earmark you more taxpayer dollars the next time around.

One hand washes the other…

By Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.

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