Comments on: DAP: No sense gaining RM1b from GST to lose RM28b to graft

By: chengho

chengho — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:19:52 +0000

many expat from Europe , USA , Australia, Korea and Japan coming to work and live in Malaysia….

By: Winston

Winston — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:49:02 +0000

The government wants to raise taxes by GST,right?
Now, on the other hand, our tax money is completely squandered by grandiose wastage by the BN government!
Leakages here, leakages there, leakages everywhere!
While Malaysians are desperately seeking funding for health care, know what our Dear Leaders do?
Spent RM100 million on Tak Nak, Rm10 million on space flight and RM 20 million on image facelift.
Besides, there obviously are many other similar instances.
Yes, foreign countries also have GST but their government USE THE MONEY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TAXPAYERS!!
So, the question now is WHY SHOULD BE BE TAXED LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTER TO SUPPORT SUCH WASTAGE?
Perhaps someone can shed some light on it!

By: ktteokt

ktteokt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:05:28 +0000

Nothing suprising! Still remember the “WHITE RICE FOR SWEET POTATO” incident?

By: taiking

taiking — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:25:39 +0000

Dear Godfather,

Dont you know that they are busy going after desperate single mothers who stole from supermarkets to feed their kids, illegal street-side hawkers and other such like activities.

Come on. When we talk about umno, we must re-tune our sense of priority. Otherwise we would make no sense to them. Remember this always. We do not have masters-in-btn. They do.

By: trublumsian

trublumsian — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:19:14 +0000

well, mr. rojak, gst in itself is not a bad or good thing. countries do implement it to fund public projects. most states in america have it, and have it at rates malaysians will cry murder at. california’s sales tax is currently averaging 9%, but people aren’t yellling and kicking because every penny of it goes to public coffers for general good. you have got to be kidding if you don’t know why umno wants a gst. just the timing is a dead give-away.

By: Godfather

Godfather — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:37:53 +0000

Bolehland is unique in that billions and billions of public funds could simply vanish and no perpetrators caught. The politicians acknowledge it, the bureaucrats acknowledge it, and then they all shrug their shoulders. And at each election, the rakyat votes them back in again.

By: johnnypok

johnnypok — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:30:50 +0000

Learn all you can from great Singapore, otherwise the whole nation will go bankrupt soon.

By: Godfather

Godfather — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:19:46 +0000

It is equally remarkable that a senior MACC official would go public with the revelation that 60 sen out of every ringgit spent on infrastructure in Sarawak could not be traced. Simply vanished.

However, the most remarkable statement of all came from the Deputy Chief Minister who basically said that he was pleased with the statement of the MACC and that he hoped that the MACC would act fearlessly on this matter. If you don’t already know, George Chan’s daughter married the eldest son of the Chief Minister. One big happy family responsible for most of the leakages.

By: OrangRojak

OrangRojak — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:23:33 +0000

“protest against leakages”
Did Hanadzlah give any more detail? It seems … remarkable … that an UMNO member should present a fact like that in the cold light of day. Does have a licence to provide counter-unity facts?

By: k1980

k1980 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:55:02 +0000

najid is like a village idiot adrift in a leaking boat. Instead of removing his sarung and plugging the leak with it, he chooses to bail out the water seeping in with his hands.

By: artemisios

artemisios — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:40:59 +0000

one scheme after another to juice the people dry.
ESPECIALLY the middle income & the poor… just because they’re too poor to fight back. That’s just disgusting.

Petrol prices, land scams, closed tenders, credit card taxes, GST,

When is this going to stop??

By: Godfather

Godfather — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:08:00 +0000

“….but it’s by no means given that a GST would be necessarily a bad thing…” Rojakman

Yes, GST and corruption are two separate things, but they both deal with one commonality – government spending or rather the need for government to raise money to fund the ever widening budget deficits. Najis has promised to reduce deficit spending to around 5 pct in a few years, and the imposition of GST is one way to raise funds for public expenditure. However, we know that public expenditure has massive leakages – as admitted by Husni and by the MACC in the case of Sarawak. Instead of introducing GST as a source of funds, why not concentrate on reducing leakages where we could even talk about income tax reductions ?

It’s OK not to protest against GST imposition, Rojakman. We just want you to protest against leakages.

By: OrangRojak

OrangRojak — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:39:59 +0000

taiking: “the GST scheme is all encompassing. It catches everthing except those exempted by law”
Adoi… where did I put the “everything – except” rifle? You learned that from Najib! “Everything will be open tender … except when it isn’t”. In a sensible country, where people don’t listen to the first three words of a sentence before jumping on their kopithiam tables and tearing at their flies to get their points of view out, the newspapers / websites would be publishing their ‘models’ of how they expected various forms of tax changes to affect different ‘representative’ citizens. Where are they?

Do we know what will be taxed, what won’t, and how much? TMI published an article recently that said “only ten percent of workforce taxed”. Does that mean 90% of tax force is too poor to tax? I don’t think it can. As ever, the hardest part of making any decision in Malaysia is that all the facts are either missing or we don’t trust the publisher.

It’s perfectly reasonable to believe that a GST – on jewel-encrusted tassels for Blackberries only – would not have a great effect on people who eat only leftovers from restaurant bins. Before I go out and buy some wood, cardboard and marker pens, I want to know exactly why I should believe the GST is a bad thing before I’m to join a protest against it. Many countries have equivalents to the GST without undue upset. Why should it be a dirty word in Malaysia?

By: tenaciousB

tenaciousB — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:55:38 +0000

BN has emptied their treasury with all the billions of bribing, unethical money based state take-overs, contructions projects wastages, filling up the pockets of their ministers with millions to squander on overseas mansions, holidays and so on and so on.

So now, how can they spend more when there’s nothing left, introduce GST,another billion of people’s money to spend. LOL

Better get a military coup and dethrone BN before they finally sell the country to indonesia for more money.

By: taiking

taiking — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:36:15 +0000

Isnt GST a tax on sales? It does not matter whether the sales concerned goods or services. In other words, the GST scheme is all encompassing. It catches everthing except those exempted by law – sales of used items/goods and loans are two examples of exemption (I think). The original idea of taxation was to squeeze the rich to benefit the poor – very robin hood like. Now, taxation is tagged to economic activities instead; and to the tax people, sales must a convenient tagging point. The whole idea of taxation has changed. Robin hood will be retrenched soon! Poor people would be paying taxes just like everyone else and by the same amount (in terms of gst rate). Yes other countries have it too. Perhaps that was because they are ready for tax on sales. Are we?

By: boh-liao

boh-liao — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:17:59 +0000

Oooooooops, LGT shd be LGE

By: boh-liao

boh-liao — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:16:05 +0000

LGT obviously a bit slow in understanding how Umnoputras n BN ppl plan 2 jiak besar
Of cos, corruption will continue n duit masuk n sent 2 London by money changers
More players coming in 2 ciak
Previously MMK n AAB’s mah chai dah jiak n may still jiak
Now a new grp of parasites, NR n RM’s mah chai, want in too
D pie must get bigger, otherwise many cukup
Wonderful GST will bring in additional RM1bil 4 new parasites
Happy time is here again, jiak, jiak, jiak kau kau b4 d next GE

By: pwcheng

pwcheng — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:31:59 +0000

1)The 1Malaysia cry of UMNO rings hollow.
2)People first performance now says UMNO cow.

The BTN, an UMNO juggernaut proves point 1
The GST will not be people friendly so Najib’s point 2 is flawed.

From day 1 I never believe in all the tattered slogan by UMNO. Just forget about their 1Malaysia. But 1 thing, we must stand as 1 to throw them out once and for all.

By: cheng on

cheng on — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:23:33 +0000

Collect 28 years of GST,and wasted in a year due to graft.????

By: ENDANGERED HORNBILL

ENDANGERED HORNBILL — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:48:23 +0000

TPM:
“I cannot advise him (Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat) because he is more knowledgeable than me (concerning Islam).

For all unbelievers, it’s time to get nervous if u think u can sow wild oats and plunder the nation’s wealth whilst God’s people starve and go crying. God is not mocked. He hears his people’s prayers and that includes ToK Guru Nik Aziz. U think u can outsmart God…yo, ho, ho…..keep trying..go ahead, PM, DPM, keep going on, keep trying….yo, ho, ho.

God is in the heavens, u r on earth. And if he so much as sneezes, u will all be under the earth, tsunami or no tsunami. Just a sneeze…no more is needed.

So wake up PM, TPM and get right and honest with yr God. Thank u Tok Guru for speaking out what is common spiritual truth.