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Monday, October 13, 2014

We are not your colony to be exploited & controlled - Jeffrey flays Najib for giving Sabah only 'PEANUTS' in budget

We are not your colony to be exploited & controlled - Jeffrey flays Najib for giving Sabah only 'PEANUTS' in budget
State Reform Party (Star Sabah) has described Budget 2015 as bringing little cheer to Sabah, affirming the state is a Malayan colony to be exploited and controlled.
“It reinforces the minds of Sabahans that Putrajaya and the federal government has the mindset as colonial masters, deaf and dumb to the needs of Sabah and Sarawak,” said Star Sabah chief Jeffrey Kitingan.
He said that at a time when other nations are cautious and pro-austerity, this big spending budget is set to record a deficit of RM38.70 billion.
Indirectly, he added, there is a charade with part of the additional income coming from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) of RM23.2 billion, higher than the current Sales and Service Tax (SST) by RM9.4 billion and used to finance the increased BR1M handouts.
“It is the government taking with the right hand and giving back partly with the left. But the rakyat has to foot an additional RM9.4 billion GST bill which will have an inflationary effect and bring about higher prices and higher cost of living.
“How will Malaysia achieve high-income status by 2020 when 28.7 percent of households earns less than RM3,000 per month.
"Also the BR1M handouts without any income enhancement strategy won’t not make the people high income earners. It will only generate greater dependency among the rural poor,” he said.
On the Pan Borneo Highway, Jeffrey said it was stated to cost RM27 billion, but there is no budget allocation for it.
“For petrol RON95 users, it is double-speak when it is stated that there is no GST imposed. But it is indirectly imposed higher than the six percent GST with the recent 20 sen hike.
“Economically and financially, it is better to have GST imposed on RON95 which would only increase the price from RM2.10 to RM2.226 per litre than RM2.30 now.
“With GST but without the 20 sen increase, there would have been no chain effect in costs and price increases arising from the 20 sen hike.
“Apart from the RM70 million - just 0.02 percent of the total expenditure - for subsidy for hill paddy in Sabah and Sarawak, both states were ignored in the main.
No federal flood aid
Although Kota Kinabalu and Penampang were raining cats and dogs causing massive floods, there was not a single mention of any federal flood aid for the victims in Sabah again,” said Jeffrey, the Bingkor assemblyperson.
“Again, despite the many promises by the prime minister, deputy prime minister and federal ministers, there is no allocation for Sabah and Sarawak from the RM50.5 billion development expenditure.
“Of this amount, RM48.25 billion goes to seven infrastructure projects in the Peninsula of which the Selayang-Putrajaya LRT line costs RM23 billion, MRT extension from Bandar Utama to Klang another RM9 billion and four highways costing RM16.1 billion.
“For rural roads, the allocation is only RM943 million and even this amount has to be shared by Sabah and Sarawak with the other 11 states in Malaya.
"Even rural electrification of RM1.1 billion and RM394 million for rural clean water supply are all to be shared by all 13 states.
“This only serves to confirm that the federal government does not treat Sabah as an equal partner but as 1 of 13 states.
"More specifically the disparity in allocations affirms Sabah as a colony to be exploited and controlled as a‘fixed deposit’ of votes and keeping Sabah the poorest in Malaysia,” Jeffrey lamented. -M'kini

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