“NO gov’t employee can pay tax if they are paid BY taxes. That W4 they get is a lie.
There is no more fundamental a fact than this.”
What YOU don’t seem to get is that the government employees - many of them - do WORK in exchange for cash. You cannot ignore the work performed and then call them a drain on GDP. YOu might as well claim private employees are a drain on their business. If true, the business would fire them. But while they are an EXPENSE, the WORK they do creates value.
You can argue, if you wish, that private business ought to run the military or defend the borders or regulate business, but you cannot ignore the work done to say public employees are a drain on the country’s economy.
Why does a private company accept the “drain” on their resources caused by paying employees? Hmmm? Because you cannot run a business without the people to do the work...
Seriously.
I typed that as slowly as I could in the hopes it might sink in.
COMPANIES create GDP value.
GOV’T SPENDS GDP value.
“The work” still costs something, which gov’t doesn’t create, it TAXES.
There. I typed even slower.
Don’t bother replying, it’ll only serve to plumb the depths of your paltry knowledge of economic reality.