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PNP President warns of hidden taxation in JLP manifesto
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.
President of the People's National Party (PNP) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is challenging Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Bruce Golding to tell the nation if he is prepared to impose new taxes on Jamaicans to finance his slate of promises.
Addressing a mass rally in her constituency Tuesday night Mrs. Simpson Miller launched a blistering attack on Mr. Golding's credibility and threw down the gauntlet ahead of the August 27 polls.
Only hours after nomination closed, Mrs. Simpson Miller stood in the square bearing her name and ushered her party into the final stretch of the campaign.
In doing so, the PNP President once again took Mr. Golding to task about his ability to procure funds to finance election promises.
“You should ask the question when they come to you will there be more taxation on our backs to finance free this and free that and you give it with one hand but you take out more from our pockets with the other hand and say to them take away yourself,” said Mrs. Simpson Miller.
Declaring that the PNP Manifesto will not be replete with impractical promises, Mrs. Simpson Miller charged that a public relations firm had suggested that the JLP bombard Jamaicans with unrealistic promises.
“No PR company is going to advise me to make promises that I can’t fulfill,” she continued.
She accused Mr. Golding of victimising or neglecting her constituency when he was Housing Minister in the 1980s, then dared to accuse her of doing little to ease the burden of her constituents.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.
President of the People's National Party (PNP) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is challenging Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Bruce Golding to tell the nation if he is prepared to impose new taxes on Jamaicans to finance his slate of promises.
Addressing a mass rally in her constituency Tuesday night Mrs. Simpson Miller launched a blistering attack on Mr. Golding's credibility and threw down the gauntlet ahead of the August 27 polls.
Only hours after nomination closed, Mrs. Simpson Miller stood in the square bearing her name and ushered her party into the final stretch of the campaign.
In doing so, the PNP President once again took Mr. Golding to task about his ability to procure funds to finance election promises.
“You should ask the question when they come to you will there be more taxation on our backs to finance free this and free that and you give it with one hand but you take out more from our pockets with the other hand and say to them take away yourself,” said Mrs. Simpson Miller.
Declaring that the PNP Manifesto will not be replete with impractical promises, Mrs. Simpson Miller charged that a public relations firm had suggested that the JLP bombard Jamaicans with unrealistic promises.
“No PR company is going to advise me to make promises that I can’t fulfill,” she continued.
She accused Mr. Golding of victimising or neglecting her constituency when he was Housing Minister in the 1980s, then dared to accuse her of doing little to ease the burden of her constituents.