And every job task you listed would have been done faster with much better quality by private means. It is an insult to your ‘customers’ that their money was taken to provide inferior service, and then forced to pay lavish retirement for others.
Dear the next. What amount of retirement money do you consider lavish? I get $1600 a month, which I consider very generous. Perhaps it is lavish. The first $400 goes to medical insurance. I get to spend the rest any way I want, stuff like food clothing, shelter and tax and of course co-pays and deductibles for that health insurance. Dentist, new furnace, etc. I actually have a very comfortable life as my house and car are paid for except of course for the above listed tax, ever increasing tax. I get a lot more than many of my former colleague worker. My former office assistant gets $900 a month. She worked the same state job from age 18 to retirement at 65. I do do think she thinks she lives in luxury. Perhaps it is different in your state. I agree that some do nothing and draw enormous incomes. One of our local city superintendent of schools makes aver a million a year and has benefits in addition. That city is notorious for poor schools.