Reform political employees’taxes

Editor: With so much time being given to looking at clawbacks for small businesspeople and professionals who have much of their life equity tied up in risk capital and debt while still paying significantly high rate of tax, I think we should also look at the pay structure of our political employees.

While their “expertise” allows them to code and ratify new laws, in many instances lately uncovered, our political workers lack the ability to correctly fill out their own expense accounts, travel allowances, length of their working week, and still, they qualify for overthe-top pensions.

Many people in our work force, change jobs many times during their work careers, and when you leave a job, you are allowed to move your accumulated pension to your new place of employment, or continue it as a selfdirected plan.

Our federal and provincial politicians, with no standard qualifications for employment, are required to work for only six years to receive a pension.

They receive significantly higher-thanaverage pay, reduced work week, unaccountability for work attendance, expense budgets, travel allowance and are currently deciding if a shorter work week is agreeable to them.

As far as those people who have risked, in some cases, all they have to start a business, I don’t think those who created these tax loopholes did it to allow those persons to deflect, postpone or escape paying tax. It was rather an encouragement to take the risk of starting a new business — most of which fail.

The Liberal government has done many things that have repudiated, and reversed decisions that made perfect sense, to Canadians, like the Transparency Act, and encouraging illegal immigration, all with flippant attitude and a “sunny days” dismissive smile.

I hope that you don’t think these actions will go un noticed or rewarded, the next time voters go to the polls

Chuck Liebrock, Kelowna