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Show WHO PAYS FOR IT ? It takes all the U. S. income taxes paid per year by about 19 average private industry employees to pay the salary of one average civilian worker employed by the Federal government. The Federal government employs 2,323,947 civilian workers. work-ers. That number again is two million, three hundred and twenty-three thousand, nine hundred and forty-seven. To keep these workers occupied, the government owns 700 substantial corporations and 19,000 small businesses of all kinds, in addition to many service organizations. These corporations cor-porations lose about $10 billion a year, but instead ofi going out of business they simply chalk up a deficit and continue to operate on YOUR tax money. Pay for the government's 2.3 million civilian employees last year was $11 billion equal to about one-third the total tax bill of all Federal' individual income tax payers. That's a lot of employees,' and a lot of government, and an awful lot of taxes. Maybe we should tell our vote - huntin g congressmen it is too much of all three. t |