Release: ScoMo takes a swing at government waste by cutting public service

Release: ScoMo takes a swing at government waste by cutting public service

The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, the nation’s largest grassroots advocacy group representing taxpayers, today commended the good work Scott Morrison is doing to cut government waste and red tape. ScoMo’s plan to realign the public service is expected to be the largest cull of government departments since 1987.

“The government is not a jobs program for struggling bureaucrats. ScoMo is taking a knife to government waste. Just one of the departments ScoMo is expected to cut, the Department of Communications and the Arts, costs taxpayers $11.3 billion,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.

“By disbanding departments and allocating their tasks to other departments, the government can do away with high paid departmental heads, some of whom make as much as $850,000.

“Every bureaucrat is a net negative to the Australia economy. By employing pencil pushers, the government is robbing the economy of potentially productive people and forcing hard-working Aussies to pay individuals who make their lives harder.

“Cutting red tape can act as a fiscal stimulus for the economy. Compliance costs money. When business resources, both labor and capital, are freed from the task complying with a cocktail of regulations, entrepreneurs can divert those resources to the actual business. When businesses do well they hire more workers, workers who when paid can consume more products helping other businesses do well. "