Comments on: The ‘social partners’ have got themselves plastered on that Koolaid, apparently

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:43:58 +0000

A good budget introduces new beneficial measures while decreasing taxes. This is only possible if there is a healthy economy where although decreasing the number of taxes, the total income from taxes increases (i.e. people spend more).

What we’ve seen here is someone with a calculator, taking away monies from one sector and spreading them meaninglessly onto another, while increasing the number of taxes too.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:42:19 +0000

Oqghod mur taht it-tinda, anzi, under the dome, Sur Zahra.

U dan x’razza ta’ Imprenditur hu, li jekk ma’ tnizzilux il-VAT minn 7% ghal 5% ma’ jinvestix fil-lukanda?

X’qamel. Mur arah jaghzel d-drappijiet u t-tapiti. Big Bon izarmah.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:43:14 +0000

Style and comportment leave a great amount of residual data.

By: A Montebello

A Montebello — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:27:31 +0000

I think the guy in the pic is a man named Grech.

By: Catsrbest

Catsrbest — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:45:04 +0000

As if again in election mode – they are going to recycle the billboard campaign.

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:00:50 +0000

With the Chamber of Commerce and the Malta Employers Association praising a Malta Labour Party budget, any further comment on the said budget is completely unnecessary.

Hypocrites, the whole lot of them and also their brothers and sisters.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:55:08 +0000

In reply to ciccio.

correction: “…the first batch of Maltese passports before the year-end …2

By: ciccio

ciccio — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:19:33 +0000

I suppose that those organisations are run by ‘intelligent’ persons.

Intelligent persons should realise that the greater the propagandistic effort, the greater the deceit.

They only need to have a look around them and look for signs of propaganda activity.

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:14:03 +0000

I find it disturbing the way Muscat acts like the buffer to all his MPs. He gives them a platform to say what they want to say, but then everything else has to go through him.

It’s like he doesn’t want anyone else to take the credit for work done. Either that, or he doesn’t trust them enough to answer to their own actions and choices because he knows they don’t actually like the direction in which he is taking them and the country.(People holding these positions are part of what goes on behind the scenes.They know more about certain intentions and actions.)

For some reason, I can’t help but think that Scicluna didn’t prepare or write that budget at all. He stumbled far too often when reading the budget speech and then did not take the press conference himself but let the prime minister take it over.

With the way the PL has to “stage” everything, I wonder why they need the facade, exactly what it is that it’s hiding and how big the hidden part is.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:10:00 +0000

“Going by my chats with people today, I wasn’t the only one who had an uneasy feeling while listening to the Grand Vizier read out his budget speech. ”

Going by what the EU Commission has said today about the budget deficit, I am not the only one who is not believing the government of clowns.

However, I have the feeling that the government wanted the Maltese Citizenship Prostitution Scheme in place by 1 November for the specific purpose of having 2 clear months in which it can prostitute, I mean process the sale of, the first batch of Maltese passports by before the year-end – those ones which were promised before the elections – netting something like, at least,15 million euros or so, so that, this time it will “surprise” the EU, no less, and achieve a budget deficit of less than 3%.