wallets with … but anything to take the edge off, right?
If the purpose and outcome of the buyout is a substantial reduction in the number of government employees, we’ll all be better off.
If the purpose of the buyout is just to replace “civil servants” with “Trump loyalists,” well, that’s a different story.
Once the dust settles, Congress should reduce future appropriations for federal employee payroll and benefits to reflect the number and cost of the departing employees. Whether Trump purrs or howls will tell us what the purpose was.
Thomas L. Knapp is director of the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism.
