Quote:
Originally Posted by buggyone
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.
|
"He now has introduced a bill that gives every department the authority to terminate employees who don’t pay their taxes. When I asked him why the bill doesn’t require the employee to be fired, he replied that [SIZE="2"]the Democrats would never agree to that, principally because they were concerned that key people might be among the debtors.[/SIZE] I then wondered aloud whether federal workers could then say “You can’t fire me or make me pay my taxes because I am too important.”
I dont disagree with the premise that MAYBE their are others but this is the fastest growing segment of jobs, and I just wonder why this and the "Sharpton type" things never make the news. To me, anyway, it IS a story to be told. In addition the Presidential staff number of employees and average amount owed is glaring.
I am sure that there have been others but under the current circumstances you sort of wonder why this is not in the news more.