Some things never change

a cop beating up a citizen

www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/video-co...1658038#.Uxm_qWfivIU

Perhaps done to get the damages award and then split later with the cop for their role / performance...:S

Again, paid for by the taxpayer...

TNaicker Wrote:

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> Perhaps done to get the damages award and then
> split later with the cop for their role /
> performance...:S
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> Again, paid for by the taxpayer...

we pay for everything - :S

The cop went upstairs and arrested one of the girls, she was later released without charge!

Neven777 Wrote:

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> TNaicker Wrote:
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> > Perhaps done to get the damages award and then
> > split later with the cop for their role /
> > performance...:S
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> > Again, paid for by the taxpayer...
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> we pay for everything - :S

There are 14,3-15 million registered taxpayers (formal sector employees) in this country...per SARS stats and from EMP501 recons (employees tax recons that produce IRP5's...of those about 3,5 million over tax threshold...there are +-400000 non- natural taxpayers (CC, private and public co's, trusts) in this country and since these can carry forward assessed losses and many did after the 2008-2010 economic woes, the share of taxes from these entities has proportionately decreased and the share contributed by individuals has proportionately increased...
And 26% of all formal sector employment is now in the public sector...first time that the public sector is the biggest formal sector employer in the history of this country...not sustainable...golden goose was being slowly killed but that death is being accelerated...

All government spending (even benefit payments made to victims of police abuse) is funded through tax receipts (in its ever increasing guises) or through borrowings...borrowings (and interest thereon) is funded through future tax receipts and borrowings...the cycle continues...

Some history...in 1994, public debt was +-R400 billion owed mainly to Sanlam, Old Mutual, Anglos (apartheid government couldn't borrow much many from overseas due to sancations) and that is why Trevor Manual (the electrician) never called for the cancellation of apartheid debt as it would have collapsed these companies to write-off these amounts and they wouldn't be the ANC's generous benefactors in subsequent years nor the avenue for so many of the BEE deals that transferred wealth to a small group of connected individuals...as an aside, rhetoric question...who were the ANC's two main negotiators at Codesa...Cyril Ramaphosa and Tokyo Sexwale...who were two of the main beneficiaries of BEE deals / unbundling by Sanlam, Old Mutual, Anglos...Cyril Ramaphosa and Tokyo Sexwale...

Today, public debt (cumulative borrowings of government to fund its budget deficits) is more than R1 trillion...

So, taxpayers do pay for ALL the spending by a government...from the buying of a pen to the fire-pool powered generators that will keep the lights on in Nkandla even if the rest of the country is in total darkness (exaggeration...)

I stand corrected but Gandhi (??) once said that "we have more than enough for everyone's NEEDS but not enough for a few people's GREED..." (my emphasis)