Makes Sense To Me

This is one of those ideas that sounds so good I can't figure out how anyone would object to it.

I guess that's because liberals think differently from folks with common sense.

Federal employees who don’t pay taxes would be fired under bill that passed committee

Citing figures indicating that more than 100,000 federal employees owe more than $1 billion in federal taxes, a House committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would require the firing of government workers who are “seriously tax delinquent.”

$1 billion!?! That would go a long way towards offsetting the sequester cuts. Why, we might even be able to open up the White House again.

The Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 requires the termination of employment for tax delinquent federal employees, while also prohibiting the hiring of new federal employees with a substantial amount of delinquent tax debt.

Like I said, it makes sense to me. It seems only reasonable that those responsible for administering and enforcing our laws should first abide by them. However, democrats on the committee opposed the bill.

No surprise there. After all, their fearless leader has stocked his cabinet with numerous tax cheats...