[Red Badger]

All government employees, whether county, city, state or federal, in reality pay no taxes on their government incomes. That is a hard concept for some people to realize, but it's true. They simply do not....................

[SZonian]

I understand what you’re saying RB. I hope I’m not stealing your thunder, but...

Any employee who is a “civil servant” or military member receives pay as a result of taxes collected from the private sector.

They then have their checks “reduced” or they are “rebating” a portion of their pay back to the pot it came from originally.

I wonder if state employees get higher pay to offset the federal taxes that get withheld?

I used to have fun with folks about this when I was in the service. I still do with the DoD contractors I work with.