The point people seem to be missing is that the Federal payrolls are bloated by tens to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary/unproductive employees who arent only increasing our expenses now but will do so into the future with their benefit packages. It isnt that dissimilar to what happened to the auto industry in the US where a disproportional amount of money is spent on people no longer working. It is almost impossible to fire a govt worker without them comitting some kind of felony.
The reason that private sector workers should be better paid than govt workers for similar jobs is because in the private sector, production matters and there is risk that you will be replaced. Not so in the vast majority of govt jobs.
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