As the country embraces the season of wining down low, wining to de side and all other forms of merriment, the world and indeed the country continues to turn. While we laid down in a state of Carnival slumber, somewhere, someone was discussing the ramifications of the term "Axe the Tax".
Can it be that in a country filled with intelligent, right thinking persons that no one noticed what I can only call a bait and switch promptly followed by varying degrees of semantics?
What is the real scope of what is being fed to us? The length and breadth of this tax policy. Is it that the one proposed by the previous administration, the same one which was cried down by the populace at large was a lower rate on a higher amount?
If that was the case then the fact that is has been in effect "Axed" means what to us? There is no property tax or is it being called by a different name?
This administration has alluded to the fact that in the face of country wide disapproval, they have indeed "Axed the Tax" and rather have reverted to what was previously there...but some are asking if the amount has increased to meet the 7.5% rate which was already existing. How can this be if all that was done was a simple reversion? It may be time to drop all the fancy words and double speak and simply come forward and let the population know what is amiss with this policy. Explain to us exactly what has happened.
It is not enough for you to say that you have done away with what the previous administration proposed and have magnanimously left us with what we were always "comfortable" with.
As the governing body, it remains your duty to do what is best for your citizenry. It is up to you to do what will be of benefit to us. It is not your job, in the face of no income earners to attempt to reap all your income from the very people that put you in a governing position. Maybe a better option would be to devise ways to generate sustainable income (a plan which is long overdue and one which you should have come into office with I might add).
While most were wining to the side did you in fact revert to the previous rate at a new increased amount?
Have you crafted your own version of the Property Tax and given it a new glittering name?
A rose by any other name smells the same.
It is time for the double speak to end, it is time for us to stop playing semantics and hiding behind misquotes and misrepresentations.
In essence it may very well be time for you to do something that your entire administration has yet to do: Come clean with the Trinidad and Tobago population.
2 comments:
True talk! If it is indeed a bait and switch propaganda, then it really is unfortunate.
Many a black man/woman voted to ensure that they won't be paying an arm and leg just to live in their own house on their own land!!!!!!
Indeed...That was the very policy that led to the undoing of the previous administration so if it is now indeed semantics and a bait and switch it would mean that a large portion of the populace was duped....
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