Your fair share, cont.: what federal "workers" aren't paying

Most people you know want you to pony up your portion of the federal budget each April 15. They're afraid of what could happen "if everybody did you what you do" in declining to feed the 666-beast. Yet how often do we hear how fedgov employees are stiffing their own hallowed employer -- even IRS goons?

The latest model:

http://bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2013/03/federal_workers_owe_35_billion_in_back_taxes
Federal workers owe $3.5 billion in back taxes

At such times my thoughts run to how long ago it might have been that the entire federal budget was counted in a handful of billions. Toward this end I've just attempted to find a chart or timeline of the size of the budget through history and utterly failed to via google -- me, the champion info mole! So we won't drive that ironic point home just now. But last year's budget was 3.729 trillion bucks -- thus the abovementioned stiffing of the public purse accounts for roughly one dollar out of every thousand Uncle Sam spends.

Should one press to have the fedgovniks pay up, or thank God that the fedgov has that tiny percentage less moola to throw around? Oyy, the tough decisions of this age!

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