It's only money...

If at work I have out of pocket expenses, I claim these back from my employer, however what I consider an out of pocket expense does not seem to be the same thing as what a government employee (at the higher levels) considers due to them from their position...
Telegraph.

Britain's most senior civil servants are having part of their tax bills paid using public money in an arrangement that leaves them tens of thousands of pounds better off every year.
Whitehall departments are picking up the tax bills for perks such as official cars, first-class rail travel and rent-free accommodation. The arrangements, which were described by tax advisers as “highly unusual”, were made between government departments and the taxman as part of a deal agreed more than a decade ago. The effect of the deal is to increase the value of officials’ pay packages by up to £30,000 a year at the expense of taxpayers. Those who benefited from the scheme include Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary; Sir David Nicholson, the head of NHS England; and Phillippa Williamson, the former head of the Serious Fraud Office. Richard Bacon, a Conservative member of the public accounts committee, said he was “concerned” that officials are being given tax-free benefits while members of the public have to pay the taxman for theirs.

Ok, rail travel, you get a second class ticket, you want first class, the cost of upgrading comes from your pocket, not mine.
Rent free accommodation?  No how, no way, you get the equivalent of a decent hotel if you're away from home on business, you want better, you pay for an upgrade yourself. You do not live rent free at my expense.
You want a car? You pay for it as I did with a company car through taxation, you don't drive around free at my expense.
The problem is that senior civil servants believe they have an entitlement to the things that the head of a private corporate head has, whilst forgetting that the corporate head derives his perks from the companies profits. I have yet to discover a government dept that makes money, rather than one who constantly bleats for more money from my pockets.
There really ought to be a crackdown on 'perks' at the higher levels, they get paid enough as it is and often move onto nice little well paid sinecures when they do eventually move on.
Problem there is that those chosen to do such a cull are part of the system itself so it all becomes self defeating.
Perhaps we should simply sack the lot of them and begin from scratch.