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"For a country to generate sufficient wealth to have good public services it needs most people to work in the private sector and to want to work there. After all, they are the ones who generate the bulk of the taxes to enable us to have generously funded hospitals, schools, police and social services.

Now, as our reports today show, the public sector has become so big and such a generous employer that it is sucking workers out of private companies. More than 20% of the population work for the state — nearly 1m more than when Labour came to power — and it is easy to see why. Most are better paid, have more back-up, are less stressed, have more holidays, work fewer hours, have more days off sick, are less likely to be sacked, retire younger and have better pensions. Many are even given honours for their work for the government.
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Nor do they seem to be bound by the same strictures as those in the private sector. Few have been made redundant and none has undergone a pay freeze, as many people working for private companies have experienced. Last week it emerged that if the public sector had suffered the same restraints as private firms, we would have to pay £11 billion less in taxes from this April."

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Trechos retirados de "Our public sector needs rapid surgery"

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