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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My story,  
I live in the 2nd wealthiest county in the US. I have spent the majority of my adult life working as an IT professional on large federal projects of questionable value.  I make about 70 dollars an hour for work that my employer then charges the government about 180 dollars an hour for. [b]The federal government employees are unwilling and unable to do this work themselves.[/b]  My manager lives in a 1.5 million dollar house with no yard.  I spend about two hours each day to drive in traffic stuck behind BMWs and Mercedes cars.  My parents live in a state with over 12 percent unemployment. Where I live the unemployment rate is 4 percent. Please tax me more.  Whatever you do don't tax me less.  I won't have a job. I am going to vote democratic for life. I don’t want to live where my parents live. Things are not nice there…
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With all due respect, there has been a tremendous push over the past 30 years to outsource to the private sector jobs like yours that you could have done for $70 an hour working for the government. This supposedly in the name of the vaunted "efficiency" of the private sector. As a result, we get to pay $110 extra per hour in taxes for your services so that your fatcat manager can live in a 1.5 million dollar house.

The Rand Corporation has estimated that outsourcing jobs that could be done by the same person in the employ of the government increases the cost of those services by up to 100%. So much for government workers making too much. With regards to the efficiency of the private sector, those who have drunk the Republican Kool-Aid and never took (or if they did, never understood) Econ 101 mistake at their own peril Adam Smith's idealized free market of small businesses operating in near perfect competition with the mixture of crony capitalism and monopolistic competition we actually live in.

People who continually undermine and demean their government finally end up with the government they deserve.[/quote]

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