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Federal employees are not underpaid. I say that advisedly having worked for the USG for 36 years. I have been retired for 11 years. I have already received more than ten times what I put into the retirement fund. I get $115 K after this years 3.6% COLA increase. Taxpayers are going to demand that federal/public employees not get much more in the way of pay and benefits than in the private sector.

I have to ask, where is the hit to the wealthy? Everyone needs to pony up to help get this debt under control.

The top 1% pay 38% of all the income taxes. The top 10% pay 70% of all income taxes. 47% of Americans pay no income taxes at all. Where is the fairness in that? And who is not paying their fair share? We have 46 million on food stamps and 60 million on Medicaid. Who pays for that?

Unless we get our entitlement programs under control, we will bankrupt the country. We could confiscate the wealth of the top 1% and not be able to pay for these programs. You are not a conservative if you believe in massive wealth redistribution. People are entitled to the fruits of their labor. It shouldn't be up to the government to decide how much you can keep under the presumption that the government has the right to your property.

You already got your fed money, you’re fat n’ happy. I work under the new revised pay scale which is much lower than the money you made. Your post is hypocritical. My previous statement was to point out the house bill has no contributions from the wealthy. In order to fix this budget mess ALL will need to pony up or there will be no bipartisan support and the gridlock will continue. 47% of Americans pay no Federal income taxes at all.

Let’s say ‘Tax Reform’ starts right now. Besides fixing all the waist, fraud and abuse, we start with the levels all are at and work from there.

All are going to have to pony up and compromise or nothing will get done. Don’t expect entitlement reform without higher taxes to lower the debt.

Yes I’m a conservative! No work, no food… more you work, more you eat.

The federal income tax (16th amendment) was sold to the American public by its Republican sponsors as something that would never affect more than the 1 or 2% at the top!

Right now we have 53% of wage earners paying that tax.

They lied!

Time to trim the rolls of the people Republicans said would never need to pay the federal income tax.