Originally Posted by
elZorro
You can always tell a National/Act voter, everything's black&white isn't it MVT?
My cousin's a bureaucrat, works in one of the Wellington offices, used to work for the railways. Last I heard he was bringing up an extended family in the suburbs, he has no university education. So while now he pays taxes and spends on GST items, in your perfect world he'd be out of a job and on the dole. The government is well aware that of every dollar they might spend on the public sector, most of it will come back in taxes, and that if the size of the sector is reduced, there'll be more on the dole and causing grief in other ways perhaps. The outfit my cousin works for, puts out incredibly useful reports that are used in policy decisions, and the private sector should be using these more often, to get an edge. But we're too lazy.