That is only partially correct. They pay Federal tax on income. But they are exempt from a number of state taxes; also many of their generous benefits are not taxed as income.
What you said seemed so outrageous that I looked it up. Unfortunately, the truth is bad enough!
One of the first links I found was:
When I say, “DO NOT PAY TAXES.”, I mean that their salaries, which come from the city, county, state and federal treasuries, and are taken from the non-governmental citizen workers’ taxes. The ‘taxes’ that the government employees ‘pay’ are simply not removed from the treasuries, and therefore are not ‘increasing’ the treasury amount, but simply not depleting it. Every dollar they ‘pay’ in taxes is not a dollar that increases the treasury.
Imagine, if you would, if every person worked for the government. Who, then, would be left to pay into the treasury any taxes to sustain it?
So, in effect, the government worker PAYS NO TAXES.....................