While heading home today there was a person who was going around and asking people about their thoughts of a public transit vote that is taking place here soon. Essentially, the proposal is to implement a tax to help offset costs to improve the public transportation system. I immediately told the person my thought at the moment was to vote no for it and his immediate guess was that I didn’t trust organization. That wasn’t the case though as I answered that there simply isn’t enough transparent information about the organization’s finance to determine if it’s truly more money it needs or if it can be found through corporate restructuring.
The reaction to this was that the person immediately talked about salaries and how apparently the CEO in this province compared to others actually makes less. Not a convincing response I thought. Now to my knowledge these surveys weren’t being done by the Translink organization as opposed to the Mayor of Vancouver if I heard correctly. The topic was interesting to me though as this deals with money and finance.
I guess for myself my train of thought financially is no different to anything else. You can change this to a family saying they don’t have enough money to put food on the table where their solution is to have people simply give them more money. If you know they are always going out to restaurants as opposed to cooking their own meals for example wouldn’t you be inclined to say no as well? For this scenario, this is the type of information that I think is needed. If anything, being transparent would allow thousands of other minds to try and see what kind of solutions could be used.
I am always still a little baffled at how people who apparently have high honored degrees and get paid say six figure salaries can’t seem to find viable solutions that work within their means, so to speak. Granted there are probably a ton of “politics” to these kinds of things, but I refuse to believe that balancing a book is as complicated as one would want to make it to be.