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Slovak proposal binds MPs salaries to deficit

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  • 19-11-2010 12:03pm
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    uch
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1118/slovakia.html


    On RTE.ie today, we could learn from this, if they spend too much their salaries go down, with our shower the budget deficit would be wioed in months.

    21/25



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    Cookie_Monster
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    why not simply take money off them if they run a deficit?


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    syklops
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    I love this bit:
    'It's a symbolic gesture to show that lawmakers - who earn about €3,500 per month - will join the rest of the public sector in belt-tightening measures,' added Dostal.

    That means Slovak Lawmakers earn about 42,000 a year.

    Compared to the 5 million billion a minute we pay our politicians.


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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Thats what they are doing, if the deficit goes up, their salaries go down

    21/25



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    Sykk
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    Mind the door on your way out OP.


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    Cookie_Monster
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    uch wrote: »
    Thats what they are doing, if the deficit goes up, their salaries go down

    i meant as in they give money to the state if they run a deficit and the state gives them money if they run a surplus not that the state gives them slightly less money, but anyway


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    randylonghorn
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    syklops wrote: »
    I love this bit:


    That means Slovak Lawmakers earn about 42,000 a year.

    Compared to the 5 million billion a minute we pay our politicians.
    In fairness, in the context of average pay and the cost of living in Slovakia, that's still pretty good pay.

    Just checked a couple of sites there, they estimate average salary in Dublin as two and a half times that in Bratislava.

    So that would suggest a Slovak MP would expect to earn about €105,000 as an Irish TD.

    The basic Dail salary is €92,672, though taking into account long-service increments, minister's top-ups etc., the average is about €110,000.

    Expenses packages etc. are not included in either case.

    Seems to me that the Slovak politicians are no better, relatively speaking, than our lot when it comes to rewarding themselves handsomely.


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    PeterIanStaker
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    The treasonous filth that infest the corridors of power here would never take money from themselves.


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