A newspaper article stated “New legislation increasing the pension for judges and parliamentarians will not have a big impact on the Treasury just yet because it doesn’t apply to that many people, Finance Minister Larry Howai said yesterday.” Will this motivate a more hard working, self-driven, innovative, honest, dedicated worker type?
Workers, it seems, like the kind of “equitable” compensation structure where they are awarded 0 to 9 per cent wage earnings while people who don’t work, they “service” the state, give themselves 50 to 120 per cent salary increases and pension packages, tax-free at that. This won’t trigger economic friction! Or a class war! What is more, these pension increases have indirectly decided salary increases for these super servants of the state.
Therefore, the commoner worker ought to take home his usual $3,000 pension per month while the aristocrats who “serve” the state as politicians and judges take home $30,000 to $93,000 pensions, as the chief justice will do, tax-free.
For what will taxpayers do besides quarrel about these inequitable increases paid to a few super servants of the state with their tax dollars and NIS dollars? Will they demand national referendum to decide the matter? That is, should a super servant of the state be compensated 600 per cent to 3,000 per cent more and tax-free than the bulk of workers, without whose labour the nation would crash?
Sarah Parks,
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