
Don’t tax investment
The more friendly the investment environment, the wealthier the country.
The more friendly the investment environment, the wealthier the country.
Even though we do not yet know the reasoning of the Tribunal as to why it blocked the merger between these two parties, we can be sure that its reasoning is premised on a failure on the part of the parties to satisfy one of the myriad requirements in section 12 of the Competition Act.
To paraphrase Jan Smuts, SA may yet again be the land where neither the best nor the worst happens.
If the government is serious about balancing the budget, it needs to rein in the trade unions and start retrenching the bloat.
The left favours kindness and empathy, the right favours justice and duty.
The danger of austerity that does not result in lowering taxes is that citizens continue paying high taxes for fewer services.
If taxpayers can’t afford a bloated government, then the government needs to be cut down to size.
Eskom’s newfound competence has been due to its relative de-politicisation. Ideological and political meddling has been weakened.
Implementation of the NHI will require the biggest extraction and extortion of tax from our fragile base in our country’s history.
Rather than adopting a state monopoly like the NHI, the current system of public and private healthcare should be enhanced.