A system supposedly to avoid double taxation,
has become a tax deferral system for the privileged. Company tax has become a withholding
tax to be refunded later.
A new year provides the opportunity to start
with a clean slate. Health Minister Ferguson missed his chance. His Talking
Point article Rolling out the health fix for growing needs(published January 2nd) continued with the disingenuous claim that
the current government is spending” an additional
$757 million over the next 5½ years”.
Whilst not an outright lie, the claim
nevertheless fits comfortably into the broader category of a Trumpian untruth.