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- From: charles@cs.UAlberta.CA (Charles Jobagy)
- Subject: Re: Is it anything known how much do get MPs and MPPs?
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- References: <charles.727243914@menaik> <1993Jan17.230507.6565@csi.uottawa.ca> <1993Jan18.190420.12761@feline.uucp> <1993Jan19.064507.8942@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:30:15 GMT
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- cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
-
- >Based on the (drastically overstated) estimate that each MP receives
- >$200,000 (tax-free), the total cost for 282 MPs would be $56.4
- >million.
-
- >Your share of that lies somewhere between $2 and $4, depending on your
- >tax bracket.
-
- >I'm sorry, but the amount is NOT SIGNIFICANT, and the savings are not
- >even worth talking about. On the scale of the overall government
- >budget, the probably $30 million that gets paid out to MPs is not
- >terribly significant.
-
- Then why ask for suggestions on how to improve the sytem through increasing
- their pay? Oh ,by the way, $30 million is a very signifcant amount to most
- people that I know.
-
- >To spend time figuring out how to save a few million dollars on MP
- >salaries would take away time from figuring out how to deal with BIG
- >ticket items.
-
- >Choose your favorite government "boondoggle." Almost any of them of
- >them amount would individually to probably 100 times as much money as
- >could be saved on MP salaries. Any $1B wastage is equivalent to the
- >pay for the MPs for a goodly 20 years.
-
- Symbolism. Although the saving s is small in comparison, we must show that
- the elected leader is responsible for their actions. Since the result of
- their actions has been bankrupting us all, then they should receive a
- negative reward. This will send a message to all of the population that
- the free ride in government is over.
-
- >There's a saying about "penny-wise, pound-foolish." This is a case
- >where it applies. People might feel "really good" about saving the
- >country a tax burden of about $5M per year, and not bother watching
- >for the other bigger problems.
-
- More the case of penny-foolish, pound-foolish. Raising a family has really
- taught me the worth of dealing with little as well as large problems.
- Funny how most of it apllies when you also deal with "adults".
-
- >--
- >Christopher Browne | PGP 2.0 key available
- >cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca |======================================
- >University of Ottawa | Genius may have its limitations, but
- >Master of System Science Program | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-
- Charles Jobagy
- charles@cs.ualberta.ca
-