If you guys are really Civil / Public servants, I suggest you find out from your bosses where your pay is coming from before you disgrace the CS. If he is clueless, the whole department can close down.
Taxes are collected in many forms: Individual income, businesses,
ERP,
COE,
GST, Maid and foreign workers Levy, stamp duties and many others.
Governments get their revenues from the above taxes, borrowing (government bonds) and from investment returns to fund their operations including paying the civil servants.
Why do you think the government has to explain why
Mindef paid $20K+ of public money to hire a language tutor for a foreign soldier attending a course here? Why the government has to explain the Brompton bicycle purchase processes and remove the corrupt AD? And many more
I would like to request you provide the CS or PS departments where you work in so that we can weed out the ignorant, arrogant and public-money wasting staff who spent office hours posting and boasting about their bonuses which come from the public.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
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. |