I must not be alone in thinking that politicians do not deserve to get bonuses. Japan's diet members get 6.3 million yen annual bonuses. They also get paid a salary of 34 million yen. I think this is ridiculous.
A United States senator makes around $170,000. Also there are only 100 senators compared to 242 members in Japan's upper house.
The governments are different. Japan is multi-party parliamentary political system, the states is a two-party republican federalist system. Despite these differences I can't see how how such high salaries can be justified for a country with less than half the population, a fraction of the land mass and lower tax revenue.
It takes 4,548,600,000(46 million dollars) yen to pay the annual bonuses for the 480 members of the house of representatives and the 242 members of the upper house.
Close to 250 million dollars to pay their salaries annually.
There are 47 prefectures in Japan. Have two upper house members per prefecture. Reduce salaries to 15 million yen. I think also that the house of representatives should be reduced. Even if it was not, to pay 15 million yen salaries to 480 reps and 94 upper house members would be around 8.6 billion yen.
Eliminate bonuses as well and the government saves 20 billion yen a year(200 million dollars). And they want to raise taxes? I can't believe I am paying for this.
You could shrink it even more by reducing the huge gap between public and private sector wages. Bureaucrats make a much higher average wage than those in the private sector. ???????
Also stop subsidizing housing for public servants. They should pay like everybody else does in Tokyo. Or they can move to the boondocks. My tax yen were not supposed to pay for housing bureaucrats in Roppongi or wherever the hell they live. Or paying "bonuses". Bonuses are for those of us who perform well or whose companies perform well in this thing called capitalism, where we compete and stuff. Not for public servants.
Also they should get rid of their budgeting protocol. They should use zero-balance budgeting or some hybrid. This to prevent that winter dash to spend unused tax yen so they can get the same budget the next year. They should justify every expense.
Well then who would want to be a public servant then? Well those interested in public servive. Well let them keep their nice retirement package. If wages are similar between private and public sector the retirement package would be an incentive to go into the bureaucracy. Either way they won't lose their jobs.
A United States senator makes around $170,000. Also there are only 100 senators compared to 242 members in Japan's upper house.
The governments are different. Japan is multi-party parliamentary political system, the states is a two-party republican federalist system. Despite these differences I can't see how how such high salaries can be justified for a country with less than half the population, a fraction of the land mass and lower tax revenue.
It takes 4,548,600,000(46 million dollars) yen to pay the annual bonuses for the 480 members of the house of representatives and the 242 members of the upper house.
Close to 250 million dollars to pay their salaries annually.
There are 47 prefectures in Japan. Have two upper house members per prefecture. Reduce salaries to 15 million yen. I think also that the house of representatives should be reduced. Even if it was not, to pay 15 million yen salaries to 480 reps and 94 upper house members would be around 8.6 billion yen.
Eliminate bonuses as well and the government saves 20 billion yen a year(200 million dollars). And they want to raise taxes? I can't believe I am paying for this.
You could shrink it even more by reducing the huge gap between public and private sector wages. Bureaucrats make a much higher average wage than those in the private sector. ???????
Also stop subsidizing housing for public servants. They should pay like everybody else does in Tokyo. Or they can move to the boondocks. My tax yen were not supposed to pay for housing bureaucrats in Roppongi or wherever the hell they live. Or paying "bonuses". Bonuses are for those of us who perform well or whose companies perform well in this thing called capitalism, where we compete and stuff. Not for public servants.
Also they should get rid of their budgeting protocol. They should use zero-balance budgeting or some hybrid. This to prevent that winter dash to spend unused tax yen so they can get the same budget the next year. They should justify every expense.
Well then who would want to be a public servant then? Well those interested in public servive. Well let them keep their nice retirement package. If wages are similar between private and public sector the retirement package would be an incentive to go into the bureaucracy. Either way they won't lose their jobs.