Candidate Donald Trump and the Republican Party want to make federal employees less independent and easily fireable, allowing them to be replaced by a bunch of lackeys. The resultant office holders will not be bound by ethical rules but rather by their loyalty to the dominant political party.
This harebrained scheme will ensure the public can only get the services they are willing and able to pay for. Will he also direct the IRS to allow that the resultant and necessary bribes we will need to pay these lackeys for basic services are tax deductible?
— Bill Watson
Anchorage
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