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The Mob Style 5% Civil Service Shakedown Is a Decoy—The Real Target Is Grandfathered Feds
Let’s not kid ourselves. The GOP’s batshit proposal to make new federal employees pay an extra 5% of their salary just to keep civil service protections is dead on arrival. It’s so blatantly unconstitutional it’s basically performance art. But here’s the trick: it’s not supposed to hold up. It’s a distraction. A decoy.The real scam is retroactively raising FERS contributions for already-vested employees—aka the “grandfathered” folks who were told their retirement terms were locked in. That’s the endgame. To screw people who’ve been, in some cases paying into FER, 10, 20, 30s years, or since its inception! And here’s the really gross part: this 5% shakedown is designed to make gullible FERS vets think, “Well, this isn’t so bad compared to that.” It’s gaslighting with numbers. “Be grateful we only moved the goalposts on your retirement, and not your entire paycheck.”The 5% surcharge? Courts will probably kill it. But the FERS hike? That might actually stick. Why? Because it’s “just” a contribution increase—not a blatant assault on civil service rights—so it might slither past legal scrutiny while still violating every principle of fair play and good governance.This is how you gut the civil service without the public noticing: bait the outrage, then quietly stab the people who built their lives on a promise.Welcome to the new federal workforce: no protections, no promises, just vibes.
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