Net Gain in Taxes...

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I wonder if there's ever been a study done on how many taxpayers are actually a "net gain" for the government. I mean think about it, government employees pay taxes, but their incomes come out of taxes, with part of them put back in. That's all government employees, from the girl at the check out counter at a federal building cafeteria, to the Airborne Ranger in Iraq. Then you have those people who don't work for the government, but the company they work for is almost entirely devoted to government contracts. My dad was one of these. An electronic engineer who spent his entire career working on data links for weapons, satelites and aerial vehicles. None of his paychecks were from the government, but all of the stuff he help build was paid for by taxes. So that makes me wonder what percentage of a country's taxpayers actually add to the nation's coffers?