GST (Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan) kini cuba dihalalkan dengan bahasa yang kabur lagi misteri. Bunyinya sedap, tetapi mengarut. Antara hujahnya, untuk mengimbangi perbelanjaan dan pendapatan, maka kerajaan harus bertindak tegas untuk melaksanakan GST. Harga minyak harus dinaikkan, atau dengan istilah merasionalisasikan subsidi minyak – supaya…
Datuk Seri Idris Jala, Minister in Prime Minister’s Department, is wrong to suggest that the Prime Minister’s Department received an extraordinarily huge budget “because it is the decision-maker and implementing body for government policies.” According to Idris, various units under the PMD are the main…
The proposed goods and services tax (GST) will tax those who can’t afford to be taxed, i.e. 60% of Malaysians who are eligible for BR1M. These are the people who will soon be taxed by the regressive tax, together with the rest of us who…
In discussing the issues we face in 2013, it will be instructive for us to find new perspective by looking beyond the horizon to consider the possibilities that 2030 holds. Both Tun Abdullah Badawi who was Prime Minister from October 2003 till April 2009 and…
To all Malaysians who created the GE14 miracle, keep fighting. We will be back stronger.