Expensive public employees should not have a monopoly on doing support jobs for agencies that the private sector could do more efficiently and at lower costs to taxpayers.

That's the message AFP and 23 coalition letter co-signers sent to Congress today, as the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) quickly approaches.

Currently, government agencies including the Department of Defense are regularly guilty of "insourcing"--relying on public employees to do jobs that are commercial in nature and can be just as easily done by contractors from the private sector. There's no reason to pay workers inflated public employee wages and benefits to do things like laundry, landscaping, and food services when the yellow pages are full private sector companies that can do the same thing for less.

The letter calls on the House to, among other things, adopt the "yellow pages" test for government work and find other ways to save taxpayers money at the Department of Defense.

A copy of the letter is available below.

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