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Originally Posted by geltner@verizon.net
The holiday is great but they should have canceled another day off to keep holidays from adding up. So many workers do NOT get these days off and have to pay for the federal, state workers who don't work and still get paid.
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Okay, let's see if I got this right:
There are about 153 million taxpayers in the US.
The total Federal Government payroll is about $135 billion dollars annually.
That means $135,000,000,000 / 153,000,000 is about $888 (on average) per tax payer.
I am suffering over this extreme taxation, $888 of an average of $25,000, of my hard-earned income to pay for those Federal employees. So, about $3/day off is billed to the average taxpayer.
I would appreciate if anyone can point out my error here? Doesn't seem like something to get excited about considering all the actual waste in the Federal Government.