More from Tan Cheng Bock’s past
Accidentally left these out in the previous post on him.
On ministers’ salaries:
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Modify method of pegging salaries, say some MPs
November 4, 1994
Debate on White Paper Factor in perks and pensions in formula calculations
THREE MPs yesterday suggested modifying the method of pegging ministers’ salaries to private sector pay to make the issue more acceptable to Singaporeans.
These ranged from adding further discounts to the proposed benchmarks to refining income data collected from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras).
Dr Tan Cheng Bock (Ayer Rajah) noted that much had been said about ministers enjoying the “three Ps” -power, prestige and perks. But these were not mentioned or factored into the salaries in the White Paper.
It had recommended that ministers’ benchmark pay be discounted by one-third to represent the sacrifice of entering public life. He called for a further one-sixth discount from the benchmark to offset the three Ps.
“If you can take away one-third of the benchmark salary because a minister must sacrifice when he comes into politics, surely there must be a trade-off for power, prestige and perks,” he said.
On how he derived the one-sixth figure, he explained: “If personal sacrifice has been given an arbitrary value of one-third of the benchmark, can we make up a case for an arbitrary value for prestige, power and perks … I think I am not wrong to propose an arbitrary value.”
Under his formula, ministers’ salaries would be half the average salaries of the top four earners in the six professions, or about $ 608,500 a year.
This would be the basic salary for ministers. Grade 2 ministers would get 12 per cent more.
To make future salary adjustments of ministers more open, Dr Tan also suggested that the total annual salaries of all political appointees, including bonuses and allowances, be listed in the annual Budget. MPs can then query the Government on this.
Tan Cheng Bock also voted against the Maintenance of Parents Bill in 1994, but the ST did not describe him as making a speech about it. The arguments other MPs made for and against the bill, incidentally, were all amazingly bad.
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