It was reported in the news that the government has decided to postpone the tabling of the GST bill in the parliament.

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To me, it’s as the same thing as nailing the bill down into a coffin of political convenience. It was obvious from the start that the government was only talking of rhetoric and trying to gain political mileage from the middle classes by talking about improvement to the source of the government’s revenue, and potential reduction in personal income tax once the GST system has taken it’s place in the hearts of our economy system.
And to the same middle class plus the high class citizens, the supposed implementation of GST will bring the impact of self-regulation in taxes and it will help the country a lot especially with the distorted impression that our people are corrupted by birth and everything is governed by the rule of ‘grease money’ or ‘duit kopi’, so to speak. But no, our so-called 1Malaysia government does not seriously taking that into account.
It looks like they are looking more at the backlash that they might get from their own supporters – most of whom the businesses, the ali babas, the ungrateful bastards that have milked the taxpayers money with substandard services and products, the corrupted officials at various government agencies, and definitely from MPs that are only thinking of their own personal gains and losses.
The opposition, being a constant ulcer in the back side, did not help much with the threat of mass demonstration by stupid supporter of theirs that could not even comprehend the basic understanding on how government revenue works – only that they know how to look like idiots on the street, shouting like madmen that does not have an inch resemblance to the ‘adab’ and ‘tatasusila’ of our Malaysian heritage that we are so proud of.
We are in such a sad state of political situation that I’ve lost hope for us being able to rise up out of this ‘middle income’ trap.