Enough of trying to sound gracious, first admit your failings and then there is a chance you will be believed
It was appalling that at a recent event
the President took upon himself to say he will NOT burden the people with
Taxes, and hinted that the UNP side of the National Govt. was trying to do
this, whilst he will stop it!
He is nothing more than a political
animal, a hostage to circumstance, with nothing else to say, so he makes a
complete mockery of a statement whilst doing the opposite, putting a
unacceptable burden on the public by taxing everything they consume, and
pretending that it does not affect the majority.
In the last entry I explained the need
for tightening our belts, as the Rajapakses have over borrowed, and now we have
pay for their sins.
However this debt burden (AS ALWAYS) has
fallen disproportionately on the poorer sections of the community and the
wealthy have got off scot free!
The link above clearly explains the
dilemma but does not allude to the real issue of the Govt. unwillingness to tax
the Haves over the Have nots and with consumption taxes, it is always the have
nots who are the WORST affected.
IT IS NO USE PUTTING FULL PAGE ADS
saying that the debt burden is oppressive. We must find FIND those who lucked out
on the Rajapakse Regime, as part of this Rs8trillion debt, as some of it is in
the pockets of people who have NOT paid taxes on their part of this largesse.
IT IS THE DUTY OF THE GOVT OF THE DAY to
carefully search out who benefitted, by how much, and then tax those earnings
of those people, if the President is to be believed on his promise. Its all political
HOT AIR if the President does not have a plan to collect at least 3trillion of this
money from those who have pocketed it, and explain to the people that it is ONLY
the balance that he has NO CHOICE but to seek from the general public by the increase
in VAT burden to pay for the Rajapakse excess!
As I pointed out I the previous blog post,
this Govt. is also complicit in increasing the deficit, due to their unaffordable
promises knowingly made!
The only answer is to clearly explain both the complicity,
and the extent of each Govt. share of this burden, so people will be more likely
to believe when MEA CULPAS are included in the real intention of the Govt. to do
finally do something about our intolerable debt burden. Otherwise this will sound
a LIE
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