Meeting today about Fed Employees Furlough

BHM said

Lets say these cuts go into effect, aside from the personal income loss, how would this country be affected by workers not coming in one day per week?

More specific since the example was given, what if the DoD had workers skip one day per week? What would we see as far as loss of services? How would we be effected? What would not get done?

Not trying to be insensitive, I just have no clue what 800,000 DoD employees do and what effects would come from them skipping one day of work. If this would go on for five months,would our country collapse, suffer considerably or not even notice? What projects/services would be most noticed?

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Good question. If managed properly, there would be little noticable impact. Maybe some marginal delays in procurement acquisition, but the world would keep revolving. There is discussion that we may not be able to put all our carrier forces on deployment, which would reduce our readiness and increase wear and tear on the equipment.

Any furlough which equates to a pay reduction is effectively a 100% tax on federal workers as they are not receiving any pay. They taxable income decreases for the period in which they receive no pay, but they are foregoing 100% pay for 22 days. These workers are losing a month's pay because our Congress won't talk with each other.