More evidence of how covid is a scam. If you look at it, I am sure most smart people realize this is that covid mandates and lockdowns affected the general public and government employees differently. Government employees profited off covid while the general public lost paychecks and are paying more for everything all due to government covid mandates. Now they are starting the covid theatre again and they will never stop it because government benefits a lot from this. Government does not earn its profits, they steal hard working peoples paychecks to fund their activities. Government jobs accounted for 87% of jobs created since the pandemic while in the private sector there has been very little net job growth. This article is no eye opener to me but for Liberal voters, time to wake up!
torontosun.com
Direct quote from article:
“(The Public Service Alliance of Canada) has asked for average increases, including pay and other provisions, of up to 14% annually over three years across their bargaining groups,” according to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
PSAC says the union may “have no other choice but to withdraw our services and take our members out on strike.” And PSAC isn’t alone. Almost 97% of Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario education members voted in favour of a strike.
Those demands mean higher taxes.
The federal government spends about $60 billion on labour annually, according to public accounts. Giving the bureaucracy another 14% would cost taxpayers $8 billion a year. How would the federal government pay for that? It could hike the GST by nearly a full percentage point. Or hike its lowest income tax rate by 1.75 points.
Bureaucrats didn’t financially suffer during the pandemic. They benefited. Now they want more. And if taxpayers don’t pony up, bureaucrats won’t show up for work.
Here’s a reminder of how bureaucrats got through lockdowns.
In 2020, PSAC negotiated pay raises “as private sector layoffs reach all-time highs,” according to the National Post. In fact, the feds gave 312,825 employees a pay raise during the pandemic. The number of bureaucrats with six-figure salaries went up by 45,000. No federal bureaucrat took a pay cut, according to research from Secondstreet.org.
The federal government also dished out $360 million in bonuses in 2020 and 2021. Almost 90% of government executives received a bonus last year. All while departments failed to meet half of their own objectives.
The Bank of Canada failed to keep inflation low and still handed out $45 million in bonuses and pay raises.
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torontosun.com
Direct quote from article:
“(The Public Service Alliance of Canada) has asked for average increases, including pay and other provisions, of up to 14% annually over three years across their bargaining groups,” according to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
PSAC says the union may “have no other choice but to withdraw our services and take our members out on strike.” And PSAC isn’t alone. Almost 97% of Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario education members voted in favour of a strike.
Those demands mean higher taxes.
The federal government spends about $60 billion on labour annually, according to public accounts. Giving the bureaucracy another 14% would cost taxpayers $8 billion a year. How would the federal government pay for that? It could hike the GST by nearly a full percentage point. Or hike its lowest income tax rate by 1.75 points.
Bureaucrats didn’t financially suffer during the pandemic. They benefited. Now they want more. And if taxpayers don’t pony up, bureaucrats won’t show up for work.
Here’s a reminder of how bureaucrats got through lockdowns.
In 2020, PSAC negotiated pay raises “as private sector layoffs reach all-time highs,” according to the National Post. In fact, the feds gave 312,825 employees a pay raise during the pandemic. The number of bureaucrats with six-figure salaries went up by 45,000. No federal bureaucrat took a pay cut, according to research from Secondstreet.org.
The federal government also dished out $360 million in bonuses in 2020 and 2021. Almost 90% of government executives received a bonus last year. All while departments failed to meet half of their own objectives.
The Bank of Canada failed to keep inflation low and still handed out $45 million in bonuses and pay raises.
