Shaw's budget - Mixed blessings

[Karl]

Shaw's budget - Mixed blessings



WORKERS WHO earn less than $440,000 each year say the increase in the income-tax threshold will have a negligible effect on their pay package, as a result of the imposition of general consumption tax (GCT) on some food items.



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[Karl]

Shaw's budget?
A good one. Needed improved tax collections to assist in pluging holes.

[Willi]

Karl... ah you dis?

[Gamma]

what th....?!!!??

[Muadib]

Torres ??

[Karl]

Karl... ah you dis?

Willi: I can strip away the foolishness Shaw's sweet-talk throwqs at the people and look at the figures in the reality of "what holds in Jamaica at this time".

So it is his 'moves' as it concerns the presented current tax figures that I speak to not the nonsense about what he wants us to believe on/with his growth projections. Clearly where that is concerned 'im tek di vota dem fi fool'.

The government as I told Lazie is a one term entity. The new taxes are ther right way to go...and the need to use the current laws to collect from the vast group not paying they should must in added...

...but the lack of any reasonable addressing of unemployment, underemployment and meaningful attempts to address expansion and rehabitulation of infrastructure shall hurt the country and ensure these guys an early exit.