OK...I'll bite....Of course government workers are paid from the tax base but I didn't know they were exempt from paying income tax.
Example: a Federal Employee has a salary of 100K (forget benefits) - lets say they pay 40K in taxes - so as an individual they pay taxes but they don’t contribute to the tax base - the government’s real cost for that employee is 60K (multiplied by millions) - that money can only come from private sector tax payers - meaning all the government bills are really paid by the private sector. So the idea that people who work for the government will pay taxes and reduce the deficit is stupid.