“Economic and fiscal decisions should be for the benefit of the country, and not simply determined by some bureaucrat in Brussels. The parameters we operate in shouldn’t be a straitjacket – we need room to manoeuvre for today and tomorrow.”
Joseph Muscat
“The price we’d pay for not ignoring reality would be greater than that we’d pay for introducing the living wage.”
“Labour would be radically different from the current government with regard to economic growth. For Labour, the generation of wealth would come first. The government was taxing the country dry. But Labour believed that the key to economic growth lay in taxing less to earn more, by stimulating consumer confidence.”
“A Labour government would build on what was good and would not bring in changes for the sake of change but would instead focus on the country’s real needs.”
““Governments need to be able to look people straight in the eye and tell them what is needed, the people know they need to make sacrifices,and that neither government nor the opposition have “a magic wand” that can fix things. But we need to show taxpayers the whole picture, not a picture that changes from one election to the next.”
“There was a limit to how much a government could reduce its spending, but a Labour government would invest more in key areas of the economy that yielded growth, such as tourism.”
“Malta needs to stand up and be counted at a European level, to ensure that Malta gets what it was promised and what it deserves.”
