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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would suggest that as "we are all in this together", all gvt employees should take a minimum of 10% salary cut. 
(I'd say 5% for low salaries, up to 25% for everyone with higher salaries). 
Everyone else  is taking pay-cut so it seems only fair.

Then maybe, we will hear a bit more of "let's open back sooner"...

When I think of how loud CS are complaining when the gvt shut down when they KNOW they'll get paid back-pay, 
I find the "let's stay close until we find a vaccine" crowd repulsive.

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The federal employees - rank and file, not the White House employees that are making $200k+, all have built in pay cuts in the form of job security etc. Asking them to take paycuts is silly. On the open market, they would be making twice what they make in the public sector. Also, their taking paycuts doesn't do anything to move the needle with respect to deficit and debt. Cutting an airplay from the pentagon, or even resintituting taxes to where it was under Bush/Obama would be bigger. But Trump has gutted the federal infrastructure and the tax codes are consolidating wealth in the 1%.[/quote]

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