$42 million in taxes – that’s how much more in GST you the consumer
will be paying in the upcoming fiscal year. That’s no small change but
today most people we encountered hardly even bothered to think about the increase
in sales tax and with a hog’s head and a jackass making news, who would?
Even the Opposition today sent out a release complaining not about the tax hike
but about what they call un-parliamentary language used by the Prime Minister.
The release calls it, “inexcusable, deplorable and un-parliamentary
conduct” and “an insult to the Belizean People,”
which.....”demeans the highest office in the land....”
The PUP has called on House Speaker Emil Arguelles to, “require the
Prime Minister, at the next sitting of the House of Representatives, to tender
an apology to the Members of the House on the Opposition side and to Belizeans
for his disrespectful behaviour.”
At yesterday’s sitting, the Speaker’s only caution to the Prime
Minister was to, “please proceed without reference to that word.”
He did acknowledge and seemed to acquiesce to the PM’s argument that
“it is a word in the dictionary.”
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