When you're eighteen years old and unemployed, they seem happy to spend £23,000 a year paying someone to obsess over whether you're *really* looking for a job, or are just enjoying the good life on that sweet corrupt £23 a week. But when you're an MP, it seems your little feelings would be hurt if anyone queried whether you really needed that £23,000, on top of your large salary, to do your job.
Is this like that thing where if you pay poor people less they work harder, and if you pay them more, they slack off, but if you tax rich people more, they slack off, and if you tax them less, they work harder? The theory seems to be that rich people and poor people are two different species of human, with bizarrely opposite behaviour patterns.
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Date: 2008-05-27 12:14 pm (UTC)Is this like that thing where if you pay poor people less they work harder, and if you pay them more, they slack off, but if you tax rich people more, they slack off, and if you tax them less, they work harder? The theory seems to be that rich people and poor people are two different species of human, with bizarrely opposite behaviour patterns.