Yeah wait… If nobody is getting paid, what the fuck are my taxes doing? Give 'em back.
This should be true
Submitted 1 day ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Congress still gets paid during a shutdown
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How convenient.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
First everyone gets back pay, then people need to work a bunch of overtime after the shutdown to make up for work, so will actually cost even more money.
But even if that wasn’t true, employee salaries make up less than 5% of the budget so a 35 day shut down (the previous record) would make up less than half a percent of the budget
Matty_r@programming.dev 1 day ago
I read that everybody will also get back pay.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m a federal employee. Everyone falls in one of three categories: Exempt, Excepted, Non-Excepted.
Exempt people are expected to come to work normally and they are paid normally. They probably don’t really see a change.
Non-Excepted people are furloughed. They were sent home Wednesday morning and will wait it out doing whatever they’d like and they will get all wages that were missed when everything is over. They will be paid for doing nothing.
Excepted people have the worst of both worlds. They have to come to work because they’ve been deemed critical but won’t get paid for it until its over. I’m in this category. I’m doing my job but im taking my time to accomplish anything.
The law that governs this is the “Government Employee Fair Treatment Act” of 2019.
cattywampas@midwest.social 1 day ago
You can change your tax withholding whenever you want.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sadly, I looked into this years ago because I was wondering whats stopping me from just paying all my taxes at the end of the year and I found that if you let it drop to far from the amount you owe then you can be penalized…
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Yeah, ideally you want to stay within +/- $1000 range of what you owe
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Yeah you can just not have any taxes taken from your check!
knacht1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s called tax exempt status and all the folks I seen try it eventually got hit up for the money from the lrs.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
This movie (John Q) is so fucking sad and could not happen in other countries. I always remember the wife yelling at John to “Do something!” when the hospital was sending their son home.
RacerX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That movie came out in 2002. Crazy
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
John Q. Great film!
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
You also won’t get that jobs report that they are supposed to release the first month of every Friday which they recently fired someone over the numbers being bad and then quietly revised it from ~+30k or something to ~-5k
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
August, -3k.
Sept prelim, -32k.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Thank you.