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110K Federal Workers Owe $1B in Unpaid Taxes

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    FBN's Liz MacDonald on terminating federal workers who don't pay their 'fair share.'

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-- -- Well -- federal workers.

Not paying taxes -- you heard me right -- the White House looks to raise taxes on families making more.

And -- 50000 mid data is showing that the tax amount owed by federal workers.

-- one.

Billion dollars a might be -- -- McDonald's here with today's bottom line.

This is really shocking it I don't even know.

-- and it is annoying that's right -- you know why it's annoying it's a 100000 workers and they seem to be the chronic.

Federal tax cheaters because this is a problem that we tracks going back to 2004.

A 100000 it seems to be here is the number every year federal tax cheats and that dollar and that has risen by about 67%.

Since 2004 you get a seat back here 2004 about 600 million dollars was a load.

Now it's more than a billion bucks that Jason chabot is a Republican out of -- -- he's saying you know what firearm he's saying -- employees haven't obvious obligation to pay their taxes.

Those that do not should be fired so he is introduced a bill last year the -- to vote right Iran now.

And by the way and then senator Barack Obama had a similar bill in the senate which are basically terminate federal workers.

Right now only IRS workers can be terminated for cheating on their taxes.

These contractors these are people that you know they're working for the government turning around basically being paid by the taxpayer and not even paying -- the tax payers success in to be so it's a billion dollars to think that the estimates could potentially be higher I think buying out yet estimates are higher infected GAO has studied a the issue says back in 2007.

Latest data for them available seven billion dollars was owed by about 60000 federal workers and even IRS contractors themselves.

Both three point eight million dollars but were paid.

Three point eight billion dollars in federal contractor tank so this is an issue that's been out there Jason Chavis has been -- in this bill.

We'll see you think if it passes that within and that's the good guys bottom line I -- democratic cheaters firearm good.

John Allan -- -- thank you very.

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