“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A Labour government would also bring about a generational change in tax collection, shifting taxation from income to environmental issues. In this way, people who were enterprising and were successful because of their hard work would not end up being penalised by paying more tax.”
Joseph Muscat
“Government is taxing the country dry”
“Air quality should be top of the agenda. This was a problem which was affecting all of the country and needed urgent attention. However, the black dust problem was a certificate of government incompetence.”
“It was not credible to introduce a tax on cement as a means to protect the environment. This was only a revenue raising measure which home-buyers would suffer. The pollution pays principle was something laudable, but taxes in this sense should only replace other taxes, and not be used to raise revenue.”
“A future Labour government would destroy the tax of corruption, in all its levels,”
“A Labour government would ensure that it was the well off who carried the heaviest burdens and now those with a small income. The people would understand the need for sacrifices when they could see that taxes were raised fairly and spent wisely.”
