This basically is a 6% tax imposed on federal employees over the next six years. There would be huge political fights over where 1% could be cut and where it couldn’t and it would end up simply being 1% across the board. Here is one scenario of exactly how it would work:
Colonel Johnson, you’ve been serving our military faithfully for 20 years, but not only will you not get cost of living increases for the next six years, but you will have to take a 6% pay cut as well. Republicans have decided they need to tax you and your fellow soldiers to balance the budget, but don’t worry, it’s not really a tax increase, it’s a spending reduction. Thank you for your service.
Sorry, can’t say today how those cuts would look like in the future now, can we? And... if Obama decided he wanted to cut the military budget and nothing else even, to try to cause distress on soldiers, officers, and veterans, he would have to have the approval of the entire Congress as well. THEN, if Obama’s (or any president’s) tailored request didn’t make sense and the Congress did not agree, the budget would fall back into a 1% cut across the board. No one group would have any bigger challenge than any other group.
Nope, can’t even make ANY story up at ‘tall since we don’t have the Almighty omnipotence to determine now what each agency or department will do each year with their own budget, and last I checked, the One who has it isn’t giving it up.
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By the way, I noticed you just joined today for our grand conversation here.
I love it that the Penny Plan must be getting so... ahhhh.... should we say.... noticed today! Thanks Indomitus for just making my leg tingle today!
TROLL ALERT.....bye, bye RAT plant....