If you dramatically raise the costs and regulatory burden of hiring domestic workers, and somehow enforce such a foolish notion, households will stop hiring domestic workers.
David Ansara was featured in Business Day on the FMF’s call for austerity in the 2024 medium-term budget policy statement.
Martin van Staden was featured in Business Day on the FMF’s demands for the medium-term budget policy statement.
Why should a private company, charity, or institution be denied participating in an enterprise that the government so far monopolises?
No army of bureaucrats can match the revelatory power of a free people interacting with one another.
Laws that permit a government official to decide, for example, what is in “the public interest” are anathema to the rule of law.
When the state dominates economic life through regulations and controls it inevitably extends its influence into politics, limiting personal freedoms.
The JSEC allows workers to choose to be exempt from certain provisions of SA’s various labour laws, allowing a South African to compete with the hypothetical immigrant on an even footing, without being inhibited by legislation.
The ultimate cause of inflation is the desire to get something for nothing; that is also what causes governments to grow in size and reach.
Failing to plan is planning to fail, or so the popular expression goes.
