So simple a caveman could do it

John Galt writes:

Everyone knows that the average wage for a federal employee is about $12,000 a year in salary (and about $25,000 fully loaded) more than the average wage in the private sector.

This suggests a very simple way to reduce the budget deficit:

Equalize the average pay and benefits in government with those offered by the private sector. USA Today actually provides us with a job-to-job comparison.

There are, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about two million federal employees.

So my simple solution saves about $50 billion a year with the stroke of a pen.

And would it be even crazier to suggest the $50 billion gets refunded to taxpayers?

Get back inside your box, John. That's just crazy talk.