Made 4 grand in OT...Tax man scooped over 1700 right off the top. It’s tiring.
Obama gave them 50 years of pay raises
“That the private sector can do much better (and at lower cost) what the feds aim to do is yet another statement of the obvious. Assuming a massive decrease in government spending and worker pay, whatever services previously offered by the feds would soon enough – if desired – be offered by the profit motivated. “
Depends entirely on the nature of the job. How, for example, would a privatized customs and immigration service work? Government military procurement?
The author needs to learn brevity.
He uses 1000 words when 50 will do.
I couldn’t read past the 4th paragraph.
BLOWHARD!!!
No raise for me in my neck of the woods. Double digit local tax increases last year and this one. Fedzilla giveth and the locals and NYS take it away.
Federal workers are already scamming higher salaries than everybody else for comparable work.
The health and wealth of a nation are inversely proportional to the size and power of its government.
-JAD
There is something obscene about Elected Criminals setting their own salaries.
Even using the tricky automatic, but option to not get it gimmick...
Chech the congressional vs the Medicare COLA amounts for the last ten years...
Check the debates before the passage of ANY congressional pay raises; the shuck and jive is nausea-inducing with words like the "Character," "ethics," principled" being tossed around by criminals who have never suffered under the listed abused virtues.
Look up “naive”.
He should use the RICO Act to recover taxpayer money from ill-gotten pensions.
Or he could tax federal worker pensions at 90-100%.