HERMAN MASHABA: No to higher taxes
The ANC has driven SA off the fiscal cliff, and talk of raising new taxes for vaccines is a ruse to make you pay for the party’s failure
04 February 2021 - 05:00
There’s no mistaking the fact that SA is in an economic morass directly due to years of mismanagement and corruption by successive ANC governments.
For years, the economy was relatively resilient. It grew (albeit sluggishly) despite — and not because of — the way it was managed. But as revenue and growth dried up, hastened by Covid-19, it seems the government is turning towards overburdened taxpayers to help it out of a fiscal hole of its own making...
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