Actually, the government is also largely responsible for the economic train wreck as well.
Yes, public employees are tax payers but by and large they are overhead and a burden from an economic perspective.
A public employee paying tax is not that helpful since they are paid from tax revenue anyway (or phony monopoly money). In fact, I believe some years ago many federal gov’t didn’t pay federal income tax directly – what’s the point?
Gov’t workers in the State of California are in no small way bankrupting the state. Ofcourse, part of the reason we have so many state (and local) gov’t workers is also because of our socialist legislature.
