(30 quotes found)
“A PL government would be built on the values of meritocracy, honesty, and what is in the country’s interests”
Joseph Muscat
“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”
“Generational change in how tax is collected and applied is called for. The government should shift the tax burden from those who produce to those who pollute.”
“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.”
“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 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 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.”
“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.”
