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Originally Posted by Unregistered
You childish piece of s***, still dare post during office hours. One letter to the forum page straits times and all of you will be sieved out. Then you tell us who is your paymaster !
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
The paymaster is the government, as elected by the people. Civil servants' paymaster is not the public per se. Anyway, your logic that salaries come from taxes means that the public is the paymaster is stupid to the extreme. I hope YOU are not a civil servant. By your logic anyone who doesn't pay taxes is not entitled to a civil servant's service. The police shouldn't protect tourists if they don't spend a single cent. What about revenue earned by the government that's not derived from taxing the public. The accountability of the civil service to the public is quite different from the notion that they owe their salaries to the public. If you can't grasp such a basic concept, I suggest you stop engaging in any discussion because it's unlikely to be very meaningful to anyone else. Good bye, and good luck in whatever path you choose in life. You will need plenty of it haha.
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The second post above is right. The citizenry is not the paymaster. By that logic, the police and the army should give extra protection to the rich since they pay the most taxes and leave the poor unguarded since they dont pay taxes at all. In fact, I believe that the revenues earned yearly by Temasek and
GIC combined totally outweigh the amount collected through personal income taxes. So to say that the citizens pay for the salaries of public servants is not very true. Most of the taxes go to maintaining and building infrastructural costs instead of salaries. One F-16 could probably pay for an entire ministry's payroll for about 2-3 years. That's just in the military. In education, especially in universities, the electrical engineering dept has lab equipment that may is worth 500k each. And electrical engineering is one of the biggest schools in
NTU and
NUS. Not to mention the high-powered lasers in physics labs as well.
On top of that, if we go by the logic that citizens that pay taxes are the paymaster, we could well descend into a situation whereby only rich people can use public goods such as schools, hospitals, roads and the like. Because at the end of the day, they are the ones who pay the public service the most right? So think before you say such things.