[softwaredoug]

> Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.

This is especially useful for valuable gov't employees that want to negotiate a higher salary :) Totally fine by me, but just be aware you may not realize the second order effects. The primary people that care may actually just be the employees for pay fairness

[d4mi3n]

The US government is the last entity that should be playing games with salary negotiations. The G payment schedules are well established and can be updated. If they need to figure out other ways of providing a salary, they can update the existing schedules or make a new set that is also publicly available. If I’m paying taxes to provide a salary for a federal employee, I want that to be recorded, publicly accessible, and for there to be a controller somewhere accountable for how they money is allocated.

[softwaredoug]

Not the US govt. think more state and local. US govt salaries are pretty transparent.