In their new book, Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future, Grover Norquist and John Lott, Jr. explain just how bloated the pay and benefits of government workers have become.
According to Norquist and Lott, the average private sector worker in America earns $61,000 annually in pay, pension benefits, and health care benefits. That compares to state and local government workers who make $80,000 and federal workers who bag $120,000 taxpayer dollars in pay, pension, and benefits.
So how many government workers are there in America?
In Debacle, Norquist and Lott report that "there are 2.2 million federal civilian workers, 1.5 million active-duty members of the armed forces, 5 million state employees in the 50 states, and 14.1 million local employees."
Reminder: The taxes that reduce your check as well as the taxes that reduce the fattened Gov't worker checks all go to the same pot; the gov't. workers' checks!
ReplyDeleteThis is extremely wrong.
ReplyDeleteIm a state employee, people at constantly leaving for private sector work. Why? Because they want higher pay and pay raises just arent happening right now and havent in almost 4 years.
Too many of the federal workers make waaaay too much, hove waaay too big of an ego, are waaaay underqualified for what there job descriptions call for, and simply show up to collect their pay and mark another day towards retirement.
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