New Bureaucratic Elite
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Government services have been reduced. It's called "user pays". Fines and charges have increased in type, frequency and severity. Public assets have been sold off. Yet taxes have not come down.
The total "take" from citizens must have grown massively. Meanwhile, we see a dramatic rise in bureaucratic salaries, their mega-super and the very high paying "consultancies". Is a class of New Bureaucratic Elite being created amongst us? Is this what we as a people want?
Let this question be answered now, before we are snowed under by GST-speak.
Philip O'Carroll