Should the Number of Government Officials be Reduced?

Reducing a government official's number and salary for the expenditure curtailment of a country is called for. However, is it right for a country to apply a burden to the government official who performs indispensable work?

The Number of Government Officials' Reduction

The government official's personnel reduction is advanced as a way out of financial difficulties. If surely the personnel is reduced in a government official, the part finances of the personnel expenses will be recovered. However, it leads also to reduction in a job opportunity. Especially in the rural areas where the unemployment rate is increasing, the plan which increases a public job and secures employment leads to the measure against jobless people, or improvement in economic recovery and the peace. However, as for the government official, welfare in recent years and the quantity of the work to a growth strategy sake are increasing. It is unequal that a salary falls although the labor force which the government official offers is increasing. You should privatize public works, in order to solve it. As a result, a government official's work is reduced, and the whole staffs can be reduced.

Government Officials' Salary Reduction

The local grant taxes of about 400 billion yen were reduced for the first time in six years on the assumption that a local civil servant salary will be reduced just like a national civil servant from July in a government budget draft in the 2013 fiscal year. Although it was increasing for the past three years, the influence of enactment of the bill which reduces by an average of 7-8%, and carries out a local civil servant's salary just like a national civil servant is great. Although the local civil servant side naturally opposed, its way was forced after all by the intention by the side of the government, and it was accepted. While a local government tax revenue hangs low in slow increase of domestic economy, there is also a field which floated the national bond and where the country has taken over local fund shortage after the collapse of the 'bubble' economy. While the financial situation of a country gets worse rapidly, local outstanding national government debt does not increase, but the financial situation is comparatively stable especially recently. Although efforts for rationalization, such as personnel reduction by the side of rural areas, are a major factor, the government which aims at fiscal reconstruction is not considered to return a national civil servants salary simply, but will also ask rural areas for reduction succeeding.