Feeding the Monster

 

Oscar Wilde

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

Oscar Wilde

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Well, it’s tax season again.  Time to wonder where all that money goes.  Income tax on individuals only came into being as a ‘temporary’ measure to help finance WWI.  Prior to that, taxes on businesses kept the government running, usually with a surplus.  Of course, in those days there was no enormous bureaucracy built around the collection of taxes, so they could get by with less revenue.

I thought it would be a simple matter to pore over the data and find how much of our tax dollars are spent paying the wages, benefits and retirements of those who collect the taxes.  I could find the Canada Revenue Agency’s operating budget and number of employees, but – as an example – nothing concrete relating to heating and maintaining the stone edifices of Gatineau, Quebec and an office building in every major centre of the country.  If someone would like to crunch those numbers, have at ‘er.  The point is the CRA is a monster.  I found a report that says the CRA costs $4.2 billion a year, but the verbiage of the passage is so wrapped in bureaucratic mumbo jumbo and accountant phrases that, with my non specialized vocabulary, I can’t fully comprehend what we’re getting for our $4.2 billion.  Does that include wages, bonuses, benefits, retirements etc of all the employees?  Is that the hydro bill?  People like me can’t figure it out, and I’m pretty sure that’t the point.

I heard an idea that I think is worth repeating.  I would love to pretend it was my idea, but it wasn’t, and I came across it long ago enough that I don’t remember where I heard it.  If I ever find out (or remember) I’ll get right back here and credit the owner.  The idea is that the country could replace the CRA (the original idea was American, so the IRS) with a very small streamlined office handling taxation.  Every transaction would be taxed at say 20% without any income tax taken off your paycheque.  The tens of thousands of highly paid bureaucrats sucking at the tit of the old system would be weaned off to find other work; the hundreds of edifices could be sold off or made into affordable housing.  Suddenly criminals and churches would be paying tax too, and with so much more of our money left to spend, the economy would flourish.   The monster would die, and our hard earned tax money could efficiently get to the hands of the government.

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