“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.”
Joseph Muscat
“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.”
“A future Labour government would destroy the tax of corruption, in all its levels,”
“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.”
“If the Government is not afraid of anything, then it should renew all ID Cards immediately rather than extending them each year”
“Why should there be any difficulty for the media to film the BWSC hearing in the Public Accounts Committee?”
“A PL government would be built on the values of meritocracy, honesty, and what is in the country’s interests”
