[central_va]

Doubling the wages of our govt workers would only raise our taxes 2%?

There are 2,748,978 ( 3 million rounded off ) civilian federal employees in the United States as of January 2009.

This is for 2009 but it will work for an good example.

Total compensation = 3,000,000 employee x $80,000/yr( estimated ) = $240B. Total Federal outlays 2009 = 3.5T.

So Federal employees consumed .240/3.5 = 7% of the budget.

So to answer your question you are off by 5%. It would cost 7% not 2% to DOUBLE wages of ALL Federal employees.

[PeterPrinciple]

So to answer your question you are off by 5%. It would cost 7% not 2% to DOUBLE wages of ALL Federal employees.

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Well, lets double everyone wages then. Not much difference between 2 and 7%