92% of urban adults agree with the statement ‘It angers me that my taxes are used for luxury cars, body guards and other perks for government officials’. (Futurefact 2009)
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What the people of this country need is for improvements in infrastructure and the delivery of water and electricity and hopital care and education, etc. – what ANC government officials are doing about this is next to nothing. They get luxury cars to show off to the rest of us – I wonder what they actually use these expensive cars for?
Why do the other 8% disagree? Are they the ones receiving these luxury cars and other perks?
Pammy, I wonder what proportion of employed people work for the state? 8% perhaps?
Pammy and Bill – these are both interesting comments.
According to the latest Labour Force Survey (2009 Q4), 16% of employed adults work in the public sector. Similarly, the Futurefact survey reveals that 16% of employed (urban) adults work in the public sector.
Futurefact shows that 94% of urban adults employed in the private sector agree with the above statement. For those employed in the public/government sector, the proportion is actually 96%!
If this has to average out at 92%, then it is the unemployed (==> non-tax-payers) that don’t seem to be too angry about this. Strange. While it’s not their money that’s being wasted, it is money that could better be used to help them get a job.
“ANC Rule = Fascism”
ANC = Association of National Criminals.