You run a government that depends on tax payers for support. You're running out of tax payers because businesses are closing or moving away, laying-off consumers who then must further depend on your government. The only real source of tax revenue is from the remaining consumers who have discretionary income above housing, food, transportation, insurance, energy, clothing, and taxes.
Those consumers that remain, who have the extra discretionary income that provides the necessary tax revenue for the survival of your government, are the highly paid government employees who are receiving systematic cost-of-living raises every year, while the private sector employees receive no such raise or are laid-off, and are consequently dragging your government down due to social program needs.
Who is at fault?
You are, for allowing the activities of indifferent anti-social and predatory business practices that have plundered the community you govern.
Now lay-off all of your union workers and start hiring non-union members, because you will never get the tax revenue you need to sustain such an expensive opulent workforce.
Or sue the businesses that laid off your tax-payers, and sue the businesses that refused to raise the wages of your tax-payers so that you could sustain your government.
The government depends on tax-payers who depend on their employers. Therefore, the government depends on employers for operating expenses. Politicians depend on businesses for campaign contributions because employees don't earn enough to contribute to their politicians. This is the political line drawn between management and labor. Labor votes for the only choices they get. Management controls the choices they get. If your mom never brought home Oreo cookies and the only cookies you ever got were plain sugar cookies and peanut butter cookies, you would never know an Oreo cookie.
ReplyDeleteI guess businesses are better protected by politicians because politicians benefit more from political contributions than tax revenues.
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