Good public services are often invisible, we don't know how important they are till they are gone.
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Good public services are often invisible, we don't know how important they are till they are gone. This leads people to think that they are getting nothing in return for their taxes.
Those same people then in turn get angry when money is tight and they see what appear to be large deductions from their pay going towards taxes (since they don't think they are getting anything for those taxes)
Politicians then exploit that anger to get elected by promising to cut taxes. When people get angry when their life gets harder because of service cuts (services they didn't even know they benefited from) those politicians blame their predecessor for 'mismanagement'.
Then the cycle gets repeated.
There needs to be a coordinated effort to draw attention to invisible public services that we all benefit from. So I am going to go first:
Food Safety. Knowing that the food I buy at the store isn't going to kill me or my family matters more than having an extra dollar or two to spend each week.
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R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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Good public services are often invisible, we don't know how important they are till they are gone. This leads people to think that they are getting nothing in return for their taxes.
Those same people then in turn get angry when money is tight and they see what appear to be large deductions from their pay going towards taxes (since they don't think they are getting anything for those taxes)
Politicians then exploit that anger to get elected by promising to cut taxes. When people get angry when their life gets harder because of service cuts (services they didn't even know they benefited from) those politicians blame their predecessor for 'mismanagement'.
Then the cycle gets repeated.
There needs to be a coordinated effort to draw attention to invisible public services that we all benefit from. So I am going to go first:
Food Safety. Knowing that the food I buy at the store isn't going to kill me or my family matters more than having an extra dollar or two to spend each week.
Education. I don't have kids, but I want my neighbours kids, nieces and nephews to get the best educations possible. I want them to be filled with curiosity. I want them to be able to reason. I want them to be able to think about the consequences of what they do, in the immediate, but also down the road. I want them to be able to explore the world around them and to find the joy in learning about doing things differently.
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Good public services are often invisible, we don't know how important they are till they are gone. This leads people to think that they are getting nothing in return for their taxes.
Those same people then in turn get angry when money is tight and they see what appear to be large deductions from their pay going towards taxes (since they don't think they are getting anything for those taxes)
Politicians then exploit that anger to get elected by promising to cut taxes. When people get angry when their life gets harder because of service cuts (services they didn't even know they benefited from) those politicians blame their predecessor for 'mismanagement'.
Then the cycle gets repeated.
There needs to be a coordinated effort to draw attention to invisible public services that we all benefit from. So I am going to go first:
Food Safety. Knowing that the food I buy at the store isn't going to kill me or my family matters more than having an extra dollar or two to spend each week.
@RantingCanuck
Water treatment. Walkerton anyone? -
I fully agree... And they are doing the same thing here in Canada to my great frustration
