[mom4melody]

Excuse me? Federal employees pay zero taxes???

Remind me on 4/15.

[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....................

[bt_dooftlook]

Why wait? If you are a federal employee earning $50K, that is $50K that is being paid by private employees' tax withholdings. Any tax "withheld" from the $50K ($10K?) has already been paid by by a private sector employee's withholdings (or is debt to be paid by their children or grandchildren).

If you don't believe me, ask yourself: "where would my salary come from if there were no private taxpayers?" - no private taxpayers = no federal salaries = no federal tax "withholdings"

Again, YMMV