Dear Editor,
In November 2013 the ordinary citizens of Jamaica thought there was hope in the people's Parliament when South St Catherine MP Fitz Jackson, through a private member's motion, led a debate on exorbitant bank fees and even challenged the banks to explain their charges.
On Thursday, April 17, 2014 Finance Minister Peter Phillips announced new taxes following the banks' model; a levy on the use of ATMs/ABMs, electronic banking, point-of-sales machines, cheques and Internet transfers. This should reap — anagram for rape — $2.5 billion in revenue.
Now we know that the people have no representation as those elected seek new ways to oppress the few who work and save. It was US President Calvin Coolidge who said: "A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude." Wearing the mask of "loving the poor", the Portia Simpson Miller-led Administration is an instrument of tyranny seeking to condemn Jamaicans to servitude by joining with the financial institutions to force citizens to suck 'salt through wooden spoon'.
Dudley C McLean
Mandeville, Manchester
dm15094@gmail.com
This Gov't is 'an instrument of tyranny'
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In November 2013 the ordinary citizens of Jamaica thought there was hope in the people's Parliament when South St Catherine MP Fitz Jackson, through a private member's motion, led a debate on exorbitant bank fees and even challenged the banks to explain their charges.
On Thursday, April 17, 2014 Finance Minister Peter Phillips announced new taxes following the banks' model; a levy on the use of ATMs/ABMs, electronic banking, point-of-sales machines, cheques and Internet transfers. This should reap — anagram for rape — $2.5 billion in revenue.
Now we know that the people have no representation as those elected seek new ways to oppress the few who work and save. It was US President Calvin Coolidge who said: "A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude." Wearing the mask of "loving the poor", the Portia Simpson Miller-led Administration is an instrument of tyranny seeking to condemn Jamaicans to servitude by joining with the financial institutions to force citizens to suck 'salt through wooden spoon'.
Dudley C McLean
Mandeville, Manchester
dm15094@gmail.com
This Gov't is 'an instrument of tyranny'
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