I read the bottom of your post. Your position is not what I was calling out.
Ok Let’s have a gedanken experiment:.
There are makes and takers. ALL government employees take from the treasury.
Letting them go even if only 10% become productive wage earners and tax payers is a net positive.
They are not tax payers as their entire salary is an expense to the treasury. Even if they file a tax return.
Let’s do some math:
Gov employee salary + benefits $140,000.
Fired.
Gets private sector job at $75,000
Pays 12,000 in personal income tax
Net benefit to treasury is actually $158,000.
But really much more because that company he/she work for will profit on average another $14,000. Which the gov will get 15-28% of unless it is reinvested for more economic growth.
>“Let’s do some math:
Gov employee salary + benefits $140,000.
Fired.
Gets private sector job at $75,000
Pays 12,000 in personal income tax”
Ok, now let’s do some reality.
Where is the parasite that was on $140,000 + benefits for their bullshit job in “International Development” which they’ve been doing for 10-15 years going to get a $75k job in the private sector? Which industries need that “””skillset””” and are going to hire them in this environment?
Or the $140k DEI manager who did gender studies at some mid-tier University and has never done a productive thing in their lives - who is hiring them?
You’re thinking about people as interchangeable widgets.
They’re not.
These are USELESS people. Their existence was entirely subsidised and that is baked into the economy so when that rug gets pulled, all the dominoes go with it.
You most likely win this argument. The current TRUE state of reality in the US is VERY SAD.
I guess like communism, austerity only works in theory.
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So I guess that brings us to a Winston Churchill quote: “If you’re going through hell, keep going”
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