Originally Posted by
googe
It's quite a logical leap to go from "increased funding for a government agency to find cheaters" to "staff discounts are now taxable". I mean, what PM is going to have any clue about how that works? It was probably delegated 3 times to someone in the weeds before that decision was made. Someone now had a mandate to find more revenue, and they aren't very good at their job, got desperate, and came up with this as a way to meet that.
In all likelihood he had nothing to do with it, and when he heard that this was how they planned to find cheaters, he probably had the same reaction that we do, and likely told them to chill out on it and go work something else out.
Thanks Obama