don’t forget to include those golden benefits in their pay package (Cadillac health plans, lifetime pensions, both which ask of little contributions from the employee compared to us regular working schmo’s)...
How about an immediate 20% wealth tax on all politicians & their immediate families until the budget is balanced?
If you guys really believe top level govt civil service workers are fat cats- why didn’t you enter the civil service?
Why stand on the sidelines and cast stones at people who chose a profession you could have chosen?
From where I sit the peopel who work in local city county and state government are better paid and have MUCH better benefits than federals.
I don’t get the envy.
Oh wait, it is ENVY
You know you could fire every fed or take 100% of their pay and it wouldn’t begin to touch the $14 Trillion deficit.
Time to change the language in these debates. No more “Tax the Rich.” Time to switch the narrative to “Tax the Employers.” That’s what it really is all about.
It would help him to define the "Rich" much lower and allow him to be far more honest.
Of course that would put a lot of small businesses out of business, but what they heck - we don't need any new jobs as his "stimulus" brought in enough.
Your article seems to encourage Obama to redefine the "Rich" lower to get more revenues, Whoopee. Let's put more folks on the streets.
/Sarcasm OFF Beware- THE TAX MAN COMETH!
LOL, I am a GS, and no one who works with me makes near those numbers. That kind of pay goes to high level people in regional and national offices, not your average working stiff out on the front lines dealing with the public every day. This is like picking on the cashier because the store manager makes a great deal of money. When you paint with too broad a brush it discredits your arguments.
yeah, and while we’re at it, let’s tax the snot out of the govt contractors as well....after all, they’re just bastard govt workers.
Pay scales are available at http://www.opm.gov/oca/11tables/index.asp
Bonuses are up to the discretion of the individual’s supervisor...cannot exceed 10% of annual pay, though that certainly isn’t typical-many dont get one, and from what I have seen, it is usually in the 1%-2% range, and 33% of that comes out in taxes.
Flat tax rate, that way, everyone has a dog in the fight