Letter: A good time to cut the federal workforce

Now that the unemployment rate has dropped to a level unseen for 50 years, even minorities are seeing the best employment picture ever.

The growing, multi-Democrat candidature contends that the way to lessen the rising national debt is to stick it to Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos and the other very wealthy and instituting additional taxes on everything, including breathing.

Here's an idea. With employment opportunities so much better, why not reduce our overburdened, excessively costly and less-than-efficient federal workforce by, say, 20%?

As the job market is doing so well, as we are assured by the media, all these once-massive numbers of individuals, continually receiving raises but…