What is your gross to require 71000 in income taxes? What would a federal government employee possibly accomplish that is worth that much?
My point is that decades ago when considering a career with the government, a low government salary was balanced with high security and good benefits. Some people made that choice and others chose private sector and it was a fair choice.
Somewhere over that past few decades the government salaries increased enormously and the security and benefits stayed high also. That happened because the employer doesn’t need to compete in the marketplace. They just raise taxes on the producers to increase salaries for their own. Taxes taken by force, not earned.
So when you earlier suggested that we could have chosen employment with the government, you were correct, but it was a fair choice back then. You just had to decide what was better for you personally, higher salary or better benefits and security.
Now that the entire compensation structure is out of balance, it is set up to attract more people to government instead of the private sector. Government employees don’t produce, they consume. That is my point and that is why I used the term parasites. If it continues, the host will die.
I sold a rental property. Large capital gains. What does being a retired federal employee have to do with it?
Now that the entire compensation structure is out of balance, it is set up to attract more people to government instead of the private sector. Government employees don’t produce, they consume. That is my point and that is why I used the term parasites. If it continues, the host will die.
Even a dead host will require government employees including the military.