{"id":11638,"date":"2011-10-16T11:38:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2011-10-16T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:41:04","slug":"we-have-reached-a-point-where-the-average-earnings-of-a-two-income-family-can-barely-support-the-spending-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/we-have-reached-a-point-where-the-average-earnings-of-a-two-income-family-can-barely-support-the-spending-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We have reached a point where the average earnings of a two income family can barely support the spending of government&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians have an addiction problem. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theseenandtheunseen.com\/2011\/10\/addicted-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">addicted to government<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government of Saskatchewan alone spent over $11 billion last year (April 2010 to March 2011) to provide services for its citizens. That works out to nearly $11,000 for every man, woman, and child in the province, or $44,000 for a family of four.<\/li>\n<li>The average wage for a person in Saskatchewan is about $44,000\/year.<\/li>\n<li>If the provincial government relied solely on the income tax of its citizens, then a family of four would have no choice but to have both parents work . . . one to provide for the family and one to provide for the government. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now consider what other levels of government spend. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the municipal level, the City of Regina has an operating budget of about $2500\/person.  Federally, the Government of Canada spends about $8,000\/person.<\/li>\n<li>All together our three levels of Government spend over $21,000\/person . . . or $84,000 for a family of four.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have reached a point where the average earnings of a two income family can barely support the spending of government . . . let alone pay for food, clothing, and shelter for themselves and their children. <\/p>\n<p>The reality is that \u201cfree\u201d public services come with a cost . . . and these costs increase as we demand more \u201cfree\u201d stuff.<\/p>\n<p>One of the truths about addictions is that they require larger and larger \u201chits\u201d . . . that provide ever smaller and smaller \u201chighs\u201d. This results in people either becoming so dependent on the substance that they cannot function without it . . . or they pursue the addiction to its ultimate conclusion, an overdose. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/katewerk\/statuses\/125590657472540675\" target=\"_blank\">Katewerk<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians have an addiction problem. They&#8217;re addicted to government: Consider the following: The Government of Saskatchewan alone spent over $11 billion last year (April 2010 to March 2011) to provide services for its citizens. That works out to nearly $11,000 for every man, woman, and child in the province, or $44,000 for a family of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,84],"tags":[509,753,545,118],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-government","tag-civilservice","tag-saskatchewan","tag-socialsecurity","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-31I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11640,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}