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The people with jobs without benefits are paying minuscule taxes, so it's wrong to say they are paying for the benefits of public sector employees

I pay truly enormous taxes. While I enjoy a modicum of 401(k) benefit, it's several orders of magnitude less than the pension benefits of those being paid through my taxes.

those people are "paying" for someone else's benefits. But no one seems to complain about that.

Of course they do. Have you witnessed the number of people going to shop in WalMart to get low prices on overseas-made goods, rather than pay top dollar? What do you think is telling us?