Dear Editor,
This is arguably the nation’s most critical general election and there are more questions than answers.
If the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wins, will its tax threshold proposal derail the International Monetary Fund’s agreement with Jamaica? Will a stimulus package work better than the austerity measures?
Can the nation continue making such huge sacrifices and is there light at the end of this tunnel with Dr Peter Phillips and the People’s National Party (PNP)?
Who should we believe? Joseph Matalon and Ralston Hyman or Fayval Williams and Aubyn Hill? Did Matalon and other private sector bodies propose raising the tax threshold to $1 million for everyone, not just those earning $1.5 million or less? Why the about-turn?
In today’s world, we record everything, where is Holness’s video of him working on his house? How big is Dr Peter Phillips’s house? Where are the independent financial analysts and economists who like to give us advice day in and day out? Can the JLP’s proposal work? Why are they so silent? Cat got their tongue? Who awoke the prime minister? Her master’s touch? Did the JLP put enough thought in the tax proposal as Andrew Holness put in financing his house? If so, it must work. Is the JLP like Usain Bolt and the PNP like Justin Gatlin? If so, we are going to need a tonne of smelling salt after this race.
Mark Clarke
Siloah PO, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
This is arguably the nation’s most critical general election and there are more questions than answers.
If the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wins, will its tax threshold proposal derail the International Monetary Fund’s agreement with Jamaica? Will a stimulus package work better than the austerity measures?
Can the nation continue making such huge sacrifices and is there light at the end of this tunnel with Dr Peter Phillips and the People’s National Party (PNP)?
Who should we believe? Joseph Matalon and Ralston Hyman or Fayval Williams and Aubyn Hill? Did Matalon and other private sector bodies propose raising the tax threshold to $1 million for everyone, not just those earning $1.5 million or less? Why the about-turn?
In today’s world, we record everything, where is Holness’s video of him working on his house? How big is Dr Peter Phillips’s house? Where are the independent financial analysts and economists who like to give us advice day in and day out? Can the JLP’s proposal work? Why are they so silent? Cat got their tongue? Who awoke the prime minister? Her master’s touch? Did the JLP put enough thought in the tax proposal as Andrew Holness put in financing his house? If so, it must work. Is the JLP like Usain Bolt and the PNP like Justin Gatlin? If so, we are going to need a tonne of smelling salt after this race.
Mark Clarke
Siloah PO, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com