consulting company i work at hired a grip of these people for construction and public land projects. struggle with guilt that our success is the result of capitalizing on incompetence and lies

we certainly charge at least 3x cost for gov to employ them on top of whatever severance they might have received. the work still needs to be done and specific people know how to do it. sort of becoming a staffing agency because theres so much profit in it. makes my stomach sick writing this out

If you're seeing that much money, imagine how much is flowing to the big preexisting staffing firms...

Almost enough to make you think that gutting then offering employees back at higher cost and pocketing part of the difference was the goal.

McKinsey and other consulting firms are built on this principle. Lobby for “retiring” or deskilling people in organisation and then replace them with your own contractors once problems arise.

Good for them.

Not so good for taxpayers.

Basically irrelevant to taxpayers. Their salaries or triple their salaries will add up to a difference of a couple dollars on the average tax bill. Doge didn't actually cut any of the big expenses. It was only intended to cut the effective things.

It was never about saving money for the tax payers! They voted for this.

Which is also them

> Please forward your next raise to me, since it will only raise your taxes.

Joking aside that's not really how taxes work (in the USA anyway).

A raise might move you into a higher top marginal tax rate, but only the money you earn above that new bracket threshold gets taxed at the higher rate, everything below the threshold continues to get taxed at the same rate as before.

Raises don't increase your taxes (though you might end up with a slightly higher top tax rate solely on the new money you weren't making at all before).

I work in state government and while contractors don’t get benefits that FTEs receive, they are usually paid close to double in salary.