Posted on 08/30/2018 12:09:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Those are fiscal issues, not economic.
“Great minds . . .” :^)
90%+ Trump backers at my better half’s DoD job and not one lib in the folks I’ve met.
If government employees want to keep their jobs, they’ll need more real and sustainable revenues from much increased manufacturing on U.S. soil.
Government pay is a fiscal issue too. And everything is economics.
If someone has a problem parsing the wordplay of the quoted law, they can sue. For instance, you.
Hee-hee... good question.
How about pushing a bloated public sector back to work in the private sector?
-PJ
hmmmm.......why do you ask?
Federal employees already make much more than industry.
“”You pass a huge tax cut and then say the deficit is too big to give your workers a raise?”
If you knew the first thing about tax cuts you’d know they result in more federal revenue, not less.
Don’t think like a liberal where all numbers are static.
I suspect all those feeding at the trough will not want to lose their full pension.
These are government welfare employees.
“You pass a huge tax cut and then say the deficit is too big to give your workers a raise?
Private sector workers are screwed by overly generous federal benefits.
They continued to get gouged for 20 years while federal workers got fat, but their own pay was stagnant.
Fed workers are due for lean times and private sector workers are due for relief.
And 33-40% of federal worker jobs should be eliminated.
Well the article states that the raises would add billions to the federal debt. If the tax cuts have increased revenue then that should offset that right?
Except in that same time period corporate profits have increased tremendously. Why haven’t wages?
I was raised an old school Democrat and I guess I still have some of those beliefs. I would like to see all American workers wages rise and I don’t want to tear down other workers because I didn’t get mine.
$21 Trillion national debt and growing.
I’ve also looked at the history of tax cuts, and at least under Reagan and Bush jr, massive deficits followed the tax cuts. Of course I realize there are other factors involved.
I really think our debt is a threat to our national security and I want to see it reduced. Of course first we need to balance the budget and even create a surplus to pay done the debt. I don’t really care how we do that. Whether it is through the government raising revenue(through taxes, tariffs, leasing or selling government lands, or other means), cutting spending, or a combination of the two. I don’t want to leave my kids with this massive debt to pay off.
Of course the last president to actually have a zero national debt when he left office was Andrew Jackson, but then I’m not expecting that. I’d like to see our debt at less than 50% of our GDP. Last time I check it was at 108% of our GDP.
The two issue are not connected.
Just because we increase federal revenue doesn’t mean we have to spend it on even more federal employee salaries.
They already get paid over industry wages.
Close to $1 trillion deficit this year and expected to exceed $1 trillion next year. This isn't going to make a dent in that.
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