Hm, how do you figure that? (What parts?)
Plus when you specifically enumerate, you implicitly exclude anything not on the list, so you should be more generic, like Federal employee, appointee, Elected, Consultant ... etc ...
This is true; the problem is that federal employee
seems to be rather whimsically applied when it comes to congressmen — remember John Murtha? He got out of being held liable for slander because judges considered him a federal employee
and doing his job
so that they could excuse him from calling some marines murderers on public/national TV.
Sorry, it’s just looks like it’s written by somebody with a chip on their shoulder.
To me, at least, it seems like forcing full financial disclosures with clean bill of health from the IRS (audit) at every election cycle would be better than enforcing taxation on them.
We don’t have a right to privacy anymore, why should they?