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“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
“A future Labour government would destroy the tax of corruption, in all its levels,”
“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.”
“The price we’d pay for not ignoring reality would be greater than that we’d pay for introducing the living wage.”
“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.”
“The country does not afford to have administrations that change for the sake of change, but that focus on what is truly important for the country”
“Government is taxing the country dry”
“A PL government would be built on the values of meritocracy, honesty, and what is in the country’s interests”