More than 100,000 non-essential federal employees being paid a salary of at least $100,000 were furloughed as non-essential. Each of these was paid $4,000 for the time off of work during the shutdown.…A sampling of just three federal agencies found more than 35,500 federal employees earning $100,000 or more who were furloughed for performing non-essential duties (and then paid for not performing those duties).
Before we discuss jacking up unemployment by arbitrarily hiking labor costs on small business owners how about we have a discussion about pegging the maximum salary of all non-essential government employees to the national average income of $51,000.00/year?
Since you refuse to cut those useless jobs we should adopt a policy of non-essential job equals non-essential pay.
It’s not the ideal solution, but it is a step in the right direction.
