Claire McCaskill: Federal employees should pay back taxes or be fired

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If you’re a postal worker whose tax filing got, uh, lost in the mail, or if you’re a Capitol Hill staffer who is just too busy making democracy happen to fill out a W-2, the time to call Uncle Sam to settle up might soon be here.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is co-sponsoring a bill with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) which would demand that federal employees keep up-to-date on their federal taxes or risk being issued a pink slip.