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Buckle up for slow reform in SA
To paraphrase Jan Smuts, SA may yet again be the land where neither the best nor the worst happens.
2 December 2024
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.
Economic freedom enables individuals to make choices that fuel innovation, boost productivity, and improve personal well-being.
At least private mistakes are usually paid for by the one making the mistake — giving them an incentive to be more cautious but even private ventures can go wrong.
