One of the targets of McCarthyism was unions, including SAG.

“Not only that, the money from govt workers goes directly into the local economy. If that money is pulled out, how in the world does anyone think it would benefit workers in the private sector?”

I am an engineer by training and as such know very little about economics, but I know enough to see that you have even less knowledge than I do. Every dollar that is taken from the private sector to pay a government worker is one dollar less that would be used more efficiently by the private sector/producers.

In other words, gov’t workers are for the most part overhead.