While the number of Federal employees owing taxes is too high - remember that there are approximately 2,748,978 Federal employees. The 98,291 (if my arithmetic is correct) constitutes less than 1%.

Take any very large corporation like IBM and I would bet there are at least 1% of the employees who owe Federal taxes.

True, Government should be an example to the rest of the country - but with 99% not owing Federal taxes is not too much to gripe about.

The Federal Government DOES do penalties on employees who have government debt either through pay being reduced until it is paid off or penalties that does include dismissal.