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Public sector workers contribute zero to the public purse? I guarantee you we all pay taxes the same way you do. Our net pay is also probably lower for a very s

Public sector workers contribute zero to the public purse? I guarantee you we all pay taxes the same way you do. Our net pay is also probably lower for a very similar job.

Kephael 6y ago
With remote learning the majority of teachers could be replaced with high quality content similar to how Coursera / edX works and students could learn from the best material available. Instead, basic material is duplicated as a jobs program. We should be having Salman Khan teach millions instead of paying so many teachers.
- anoncake 6y ago
  There is a limit to how many students a teacher can effectively teach at once. It's far below a million.
sparkie 6y ago
I didn't say they don't pay taxes. I said they don't contribute to the public purse. Your taxes are not a contribution to the public purse because your entire wage comes from the public purse. A public sector worker is not adding to the national gain. Their work may provide value to the nation, in that it can be considered an investment - in the case of teaching, the students who graduate and go into the private sector may create wealth that goes into the national gain. The fact that public sector workers even pay taxes on their income from the State is a bizarre process which merely ties up financial resources into a system where they're taken from a pot, only to be put back into the same pot later on, in a repeated cycle. It has become apparent that many of the students who graduate from publicly subsidized academies go back into the academies themselves. They are not necessarily providing value to a nation, but its impossible to really measure whether or not that could be the case. The expansion of the public sector has obvious consequences though: less income into the public purse whilst public expenditure grows. There's only one conclusion to this trend if it were to continue: the salaries of all public sector workers will eventually exceed the income tax from private sector workers. Insane. If more workers were placed into the private sector, then not only does national expenditure decrease, the total income tax increases - those same jobs could add to the national gain rather than take from the pot, freeing up resources for other purposes. There must necessarily be a cap on the size of the public sector, and it is my opinion that the smaller the better.

Public sector workers contribute zero to the public purse? I guarantee you we all pay taxes the same way you do. Our net pay is also probably lower for a very similar job.

Kephael 6y ago

With remote learning the majority of teachers could be replaced with high quality content similar to how Coursera / edX works and students could learn from the best material available. Instead, basic material is duplicated as a jobs program. We should be having Salman Khan teach millions instead of paying so many teachers.

anoncake 6y ago
There is a limit to how many students a teacher can effectively teach at once. It's far below a million.

sparkie 6y ago

I didn't say they don't pay taxes. I said they don't contribute to the public purse. Your taxes are not a contribution to the public purse because your entire wage comes from the public purse. A public sector worker is not adding to the national gain. Their work may provide value to the nation, in that it can be considered an investment - in the case of teaching, the students who graduate and go into the private sector may create wealth that goes into the national gain. The fact that public sector workers even pay taxes on their income from the State is a bizarre process which merely ties up financial resources into a system where they're taken from a pot, only to be put back into the same pot later on, in a repeated cycle. It has become apparent that many of the students who graduate from publicly subsidized academies go back into the academies themselves. They are not necessarily providing value to a nation, but its impossible to really measure whether or not that could be the case. The expansion of the public sector has obvious consequences though: less income into the public purse whilst public expenditure grows. There's only one conclusion to this trend if it were to continue: the salaries of all public sector workers will eventually exceed the income tax from private sector workers. Insane. If more workers were placed into the private sector, then not only does national expenditure decrease, the total income tax increases - those same jobs could add to the national gain rather than take from the pot, freeing up resources for other purposes. There must necessarily be a cap on the size of the public sector, and it is my opinion that the smaller the better.