Punish those behind freeloaders

Past punishments for freeloading on government money have included confiscating the illegal income or an official warning. But these are too light to prevent more from following their examples. The low cost of breaking the law has caused the rampancy of placing phantom employees in government agencies and it is time to take harsher measures against those who break the rules.

Oriental Morning Post, Sept 24

Those who put unentitled names on the payrolls are to blame, but it is the directors of relevant government agencies that are ultimately responsible, because without their approval it would be impossible for the freeloaders to receive wages. Since several provinces have already found more than 100,000 freeloaders, why not dig deeper and find those directors who are responsible, too? They deserve to pay for the taxpayers' losses.