Thank you for this post; I recognize that being in leadership or management within bureaucracies is not an easy thing to do.

Whether it’s leadership or management roles, one thing connects them all — they are funded by tax dollars taken by people without choice.

You want to live here? There’s a tax for that. You want to shop here? There’s a tax for that. You want a business here? There’s a tax for that. You want to build here? There’s a tax for that. And it’s not just ‘a’ tax, it is multiple taxes and fees.

Leadership and management wouldn’t exist without tax dollars. And that’s what I see going unnoticed — there seems to be no recognition that it is the people paying the taxes that make everything happen, because government couldn’t exist without money they take.

Since the funding comes from taxes, it would be nice if leadership and management recognized who pays their salaries and overhead; and that being paid by tax dollars makes them public servants — servants to the taxed public — no matter what role they are in.