A taxpayer is someone who doesn't have to take a civil service
examination to work for the government.
-- Krueger's law.
Related:
How many
municipal employees
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Seven - two to administer the Civil Service examination for the
Light Bulb Administrator position, the Commissioner of Public
Works, who ends up hiring his brother for the position anyway,
one to plow the mayor's driveway, a Summer Youth student to
actually screw it in, and a Union steward to protest that its
the electrician's job to screw in light bulbs....