Should whistle-blowers be paid for turning in people/exposing fraud...or is that their civic duty to do so?

Question

Last year the govt paid 190 million to whistle-blowers.

Answer 1

Money is paid to whistle blowers because they generally lose thier jobs. I would agree with it being thier civic duty, they still need money to support themselves and thier families. Otherwise, people would be less likely to "blow the whistle" if they might become homeless.

Answer 2

If a whistle-blower provides credible information that exposes fraud, abuse, and criminal activity that protects the public then they should be paid a reasonable amount, but nothing as a reward.

A whistle-blower that was fired or forced to quit in order to bring the fraud or corruption to light should get paid an amount equal to the wages he would have earned if they were still working there starting at the time he was fired (or quit) until the end of the first trial. If the whistle-blower must testify again in later trials they should recieve payment equal to the daily wages of their current job for each day the appear in court.

Ideally only 50-90% of this wage-based compensation should be paid. Whistle-blowers would have more credibility since paying more would create a system of people turning whistle-blower for profit rather than out of civic duty.

Answer 3

Civic duty!

Answer 4

Yes, they should definitely pay them! What else would the incentive be? Ostracized by their profession and poor to boot?

Answer 5

pay..
they take a gut chance..
worth more than they get paid.

Answer 6

i cant concentrate.......looking at your bum...............