The VAT hike, while framed by Godongwana as a “marginal increase” to avoid deeper spending cuts, distracts from the urgent necessity for fiscal responsibility, tax reform, and privatisation, argues the FMF.
The FMF is deeply saddened to announce the passing of its chairman, Rex van Schalkwyk.
The private sector, not the state, is the engine of prosperity. The GNU must act swiftly to dismantle the structural barriers that have held us back for too long.
SA’s fiscal position means that any additional taxes would place a crushing burden on an already fragile tax base.
We have normalised a condition in which large swathes of people, who could be productive, are simply sitting at home doing nothing
Donald Trump’s intervention should be cheered by all patriotic South Africans who care about private property rights, the rule of law, and a free market economy.
Either the state pays for expropriation by means of compensation, or the rest of us, especially the most destitute, pay for it in the form of economic decline.
We are more convinced than ever that this legislation poses an enormous threat to freedom and prosperity in our country
Concealing the absence of compensation in appeals to ‘nil’ compensation does not cure the Expropriation Act of its confiscatory nature or unconstitutionality.
Expropriation for “nil compensation” is unconstitutionally euphemistic and goes against the plain text meaning of sections 25(2) and (3) of the Constitution.
