Column by Paul Mulshine, includes “… I'm talking about a statement that Democrat Phil Murphy made during that budget address Tuesday in which he proposed a whole lot more spending accompanied by a whole lot more taxation. … As public-employee unions gained more and more power, they began to cajole politicians into putting the interests of the public employees over those of the public. Murphy is perhaps the best example of that phenomenon we've ever seen. But he's got a problem: Prior governors kept handing the unions benefits without putting the money aside to pay for them.”