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Monday, May 4, 2015

FOREVER RACISTS BN: GST not about race but low-income Malaysians

 FOREVER RACISTS BN: GST not about race but low-income M'sians
‘It is not about which racial groups pay more GST.’
Swipenter: The goods and services tax (GST) is consumption-based tax and has nothing to do with income. You consume, you pay GST.
It is downright stupid and racist to urge Chinese Malaysians to support this new tax because Malay Malaysians will pay more due to their numerical superiority.
Applying MCA Wanita chief Heng Seai Kie’s brand of logic, the Chinese should not support paying income tax because they make up 90 percent of income tax payers and the Malays should support it because they pay lower income tax, collectively.
Nobody is against GST per se. People are against GST because they perceive the GST collected would be used to bail out alleged massive mismanagement of our national financial resources by the Umno-led government, for example, the missing RM24 billion from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), and secondly the confusion and haphazard way GST is implemented that even the officers charged with it do not understand the system - as recently and rightly pointed out by former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Truly Malaysian: How can Heng argue that GST is good because it hits our Malay brothers and sisters harder? What a weird and twisted logic. GST is an issue affecting all Malaysian rakyat.
Ib: The true colour of MCA is showing under pressure. It’s a shame the party is so bankrupt of ideas that it is resorting to use the race card, time and again.
Versey: This is a reflection of a party that is very out of touch with the rakyat and its own ethnic community. Heng is not only racist in her comments, she has totally missed the point of why people object to the implementation of GST.
If the federal government has practised good governance and managed the nation's finance well, the country's industries would have been successfully transformed into producing value-added goods and services, whereby the average wages of workers will not be so pathetically low and with the majority of rakyat is already subjected to taxable income. Then, by all means, go and implement GST, starting with a low percentage, giving the people ample time to prepare and be psychologically ready for it.
Most important of all, the ministers/civil servants in charge should get themselves better equipped to answer/assist rakyat's queries without such confusion, for example, conflicting views as to whether prepaid phone cards are subject to GST, thereby giving the impression that the authorities themselves are equally confused, and that they are in a hurry to "rob" the rakyat to fill the empty national coffers.
Lukesky: So the Chinese should be happy that the Malays, having bigger families, will supposedly have to pay more consumption tax.
I will probably be accused of being a racist, but the hard reality on the ground that no politician will say out aloud is that the Chinese and Indians in this country cannot afford to have bigger families because their net income, after taxes and normal living costs, has to be saved to pay for their children’s higher education and their retirement.
FellowMalaysian: Umno information chief Ahmad Maslan said the GST will force Chinese traders, supposedly tax dodgers, to pay tax to the government. Heng Seai Kie said the Malays will be at the receiving end of the tax as they consume more.
So combining both their reasoning, GST will negatively affect the Chinese and the Malays.
Bamboo: There go some of the Malay votes for BN in Rompin and Permatang Pauh. Heng is trying to be helpful, but I guess she inadvertently opened the eyes of the Malays and lost their support.
Survivor: Heng, you are offering the most ridiculous reasoning by saying that the Malays will pay more.
The Chinese are against the GST because the Chinese do not want the Malays to pay more. Indeed, the Chinese and Malays do not want any Malaysian to pay more for their essential daily goods.
By the way, why did some of the Umno ministers tell their Malay audience that the Chinese will pay more? Why the need for this contradiction?
Speaking Sense: We are Malaysians. Why should we be happy because another race or group is paying more than us? We should only be happy if everyone is treated fairly and equally.
Enough of this racial and religious-based politics from bankrupt politicians desperately trying to salvage their pointless political careers for the benefit of no one but themselves.
Vgeorgemy: These politicians still could not get it. The protest against GST is that the government is not taxing the extreme rich adequately, thus they are taking the surplus monies out of Malaysia, irrespective of their racial affiliation.
Disbeliever: Race shouldn't be used as an issue here. The GST affects everyone, even the man-on-the-street.
Take for example, how GST has affected me. I had plain iced water at a food shop recently and was charged GST. Today while riding my motorcycle, I had a flat tyre. The motorcycle shop charged me six percent GST on top of the cost of the tube.
To put it in a nutshell, I've to cough up six percent more on almost everything in which previously I did not have to pay for. So, how can it be said that GST is good for the rakyat?
Ministers who make such statements are nothing more than idiots of the first degree.
Bluemountains: How else can MCA justify the implementation of GST? It is not about which race will be paying more. It is about the plight of all low-income earners, irrespective of race or colour. - M'kini

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