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Government Jobs Expanding - On Your Dime

Charles1759 Wrote: Feb 02, 2010 8:38 PM
If our government were to have a payroll of 2.125 million employees, would that be to many on payroll? In 2010, Obama is attempting to have that many employees, what is it going to be in 2011, 2012, 2013, how about 2025, or 2050? Can we afford this including their retirement and pension program? Remember government employees do not pay taxes, their is not money accumulated from their employment that is part of the share all other taxpayers pay into since their income is from the treasury. Just what is to many employees? Do you begin to see the curve downward in having money to pay all that overhead? To many is to much so something has to give along the way either taxpayers have to pay more or there has to be cuts in the government...

Americans often wonder where all our tax money goes.

Well, a good chunk finances a steadily-growing government workforce. State and local governments spent $1.1 trillion on employee wages and benefits in 2008. That’s half of what those governments spent overall.

And while the private sector job market remains bleak, there are more civil service jobs than ever. The federal Labor Department projects wage and salary employment in state and local government will increase 8 percent by 2018. That’s a comforting thought for anyone who has to spend time in line at the DMV. Wish we could be as confident...

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