If a government worker is paid $100,000/year in salary and benefits, they may pay $18,000 per year in taxes. This worker is costing the other tax payers $82,000/year.
The way I do the math the other tax payers pay $100,000, not $$82,000. Other tax payers paid both the net pay and the benefits and the taxes. The government worker paid N O T H I N G.
Correct, but remember if the gubment worker is paid $100K once you factor in his benefit package the administrative costs associated with his job (he needs to be supervised) and all the other incidentals the costs to the taxpayer is much higher.
Trying to solve a recession by expanding the government workforce always struck me as a starving man cutting off his foot and eating it, thinking he was filling his stomach.