Everyone knows that the average wage for a federal employee is about $12,000 a year in salary (and about $25,000 fully loaded) more than the average wage in the private sector.
This suggests a very simple way to reduce the budget deficit:
Equalize the average pay and benefits in government with those offered by the private sector. USA Today actually provides us with a job-to-job comparison.
There are, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about two million federal employees.
So my simple solution saves about $50 billion a year with the stroke of a pen.
And would it be even crazier to suggest the $50 billion gets refunded to taxpayers?
Get back inside your box, John. That's just crazy talk.
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