EDITORIAL: Will vaccines funding be any different given our leaders’ atrocious budget choices?
As the certainty of death and taxes endures, perhaps now is a good time to re-examine the foolhardy trade-offs made to save SAA
22 January 2021 - 05:10
If the laundry list of budget cuts made to bail out SAA were unable to demonstrate the costs of bad political choices, it seems unlikely that the raging debate on how SA is to pay for its vaccine rollout will.
This week the Treasury revealed some of the thorny options for finding the money to inoculate the country: widen the deficit and add to SA’s crippling debt; increase taxes; or cut budgets even further, risking service delivery that is already parlous...
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