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If you could do all of the following as part of a single bill it would go a long way toward getting brilliant people into government roles.

1. Pay for all the below by strategically cutting military spending some low-to-mid single-digit percentage.[0]

2. Eliminate public sector unions and most Civil Service classifications, both of which make it harder to fire low performers.

3. Peg government payroll for all positions to (if it exists) their private-sector counterpart, plus a healthy percentage, say 15%.[1]

4. Eliminate government pensions and match government employee 401(k) contributions up to a large percentage, e.g. 10% of salary.

5. Allow all government employees to enroll in Medicare.

[0] The military is already getting projects it doesn't want as pork, most of these cuts could be to those programs.

[1] There are legal caps to salary for the executive branch but there are already ways around those (e.g. as contractors).



Sadly, any senator/congressperson putting a bill like this would not hold their position after the very next election cycle. The lobbyists are too strong. However, I would vote for someone that ran on this platform.




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