It's August

Which means that, once again, CATO's Chris Edwards is arguing that federal employees are overpaid because the average fed makes more than the average private-sector worker in all industries and job grades. We wrote about this last year, and talked to some folks who think the comparison Edwards does isn't actually useful or targeted. This year, Reihan Salam pushes back against Edwards' argument that there should be a pay freeze for federal workers, and calls for an evaluation of compensation on a job-by-job basis, though he does suggest that Edwards might be right about the benefits of federal job security.