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The Good Life: Pensions for Life Threaten Taxpayers

Posted by Greg L on February 11, 2010 · 2 Comments

Back in the day as young college graduates, most of us would not consider getting a job with any government agency. For those of us with freshly minted accounting degrees, the last sort of job we wanted was with a place like the Internal Revenue Service. First of all, they paid less than a … Continue reading →

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