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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Given the NDP government told these people to get out, you can't really be surprised.
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You'll have to refresh my memory. It doesn't surprise me. The greed some people display astonishes me, but doesn't surprise me.
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Yeah, I'm taking about a 12% haircut this year because of the economy. And I'm *lucky* because I still have a stable and safe job. Private industry is looking at mountains of red ink and adjusting. The government needs to as well.
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How about your bosses? Or do they only pay taxes in Ireland, where they built their 6th home for that sole purpose?
Taking down individual salaries of people, in either sector, is not going to do enough, or anything, to help the overall situation. In fact it hurts because it shrinks the tax base, which pays for these things. Health care, education, public services, etc all need to be streamlined. That doesn't necessarily mean individual salaries need to go up or down, it's that middle people need to be completely cut out (like what the private sector is doing), and processes made more efficient and effective. But in conjunction with that, the people making ridiculous dough and holding it can't just cut and leave taking their taxes with them because it got more expensive for them to be here. I mean, they can, but how come no one ever calls them out for being crappy citizens. They created jobs here, yes. They innovated and grew the wealth of this area overall, yes. They also exploited the resources here at huge personal gain. I personally don't think that gives them free reign to take their ball and go home without so much as a finger wave from anyone. They still made their riches off the backs of hard working people they are now leaving in the dust.