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 w

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.