SM Goh says plan for GST hike came after elections
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We are the Mio generation what. Mio $$$, Mio hope, Mio job, etc.
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I think we are in serious trouble given that with all the highly paod high fliers, we are churning out policies impromtu.
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Dun understand why he wants to speak on the GST topic...Originally posted by LinYu:SM Goh says plan for GST hike came after elections
By Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 17 January 2007 1426 hrs
ABU DHABI: With Budget Day coming up, all eyes and ears will be on the announcement on the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and offset package.
Commenting on any possible fallout, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said price increases would not be that big.
Speaking to media at the end of his 9-day official trip to Morocco and Abu Dhabi, Mr Goh was reluctant to reveal any details of the GST package.
He would only say there would be measures to mitigate immediate price increases, with the aim of long-term economic growth to push up wages.
However, he did address perceptions about such unpopular moves being introduced after elections.
"That's not quite wrong. That's politics. That's the way campaigns should be fought. You concentrate on what you want to do – the positive parts. And of course, in some instances, you have to raise revenue to support the programmes. And after the election, you have got to translate your pledge into reality," said Mr Goh. Mr Goh also revealed that the idea to raise the GST came much later.
He said: "I'll tell you quite candidly and honestly – during election time, the idea of GST had not come in yet. Because we just thought – we've got to do the Workfare bonus, we'll look at the sums later on. And we find that it's better for us to raise GST, not just for the programmes, but for anything we want to spend more on – education, for example."
What is important though, he said, is that at the end of a 5-year term, the pain must produce good results, with everyone saying it was worth it. - CNA/so -
I wonder if his nose grew longer when he said thatOriginally posted by LinYu:He said: "I'll tell you quite candidly and honestly – during election time, the idea of GST had not come in yet.
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One must be really naive to believe that statement
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A freudian slip?Originally posted by play_n_play:Dun understand why he wants to speak on the GST topic... -
Only OM will believe their LIES....Originally posted by menoob:One must be really naive to believe that statement
In fact, I think he swears by their LIES.. -
The thing is after the new PM came in, GCT have been doing all the shit work and giving us bad news....machium like bad news bearer liaoOriginally posted by siaokao:One thing I like abt Goh.. is that he is a damn lousy liar!
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his Prime Minister put him up to it to deflect hatred away?Originally posted by play_n_play:Dun understand why he wants to speak on the GST topic...
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x 2Originally posted by the Bear:his Prime Minister put him up to it to deflect hatred away?
Just before the budget debate -
it was an honest mistakeOriginally posted by maurizio13:A freudian slip? -
Ooops.Originally posted by FireIce:it was an honest mistake
Idiotic Slip then.
Hehehe
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i dont understand eitherOriginally posted by play_n_play:Dun understand why he wants to speak on the GST topic... -
To tell u honestly from my heart he said it was a political gain in Moroc!
but my frds told he was enjouying life in fullness with all these grls ard him!!!!in Moroco!!!
Good luck 2 sillyporeans!!! laughting stock in ME and E !!! -
i have yet to see an honest politicianOriginally posted by FireIce:it was an honest mistake
rumors back then LKY call GCT a block of wood
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This gives us all the more reason to migrate
Come let us all migrate....better to hand over Sillypore to the migrants from China and India.....they are here to take away our top jobs anyway....so might as well present it to them on a platter...while the existing Sillyporeans fight for the middle to low income jobs