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Poverty to Prosperity
Budget Presentation
Gordon House March 19, 2015
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He is like that, the Minister doesn‟t want to see you have any spending money in
your pocket.
As soon as we were getting a little break with the grudgingly reduced in gas prices, the
Minister has grudgefully taken away the little relief.
Not even the Prime Minister it appears can convince him to make her keep promise on the
removal of GCT on electricity.
A wise man once said: “that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man
standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle”.
The Minister of Finance is standing in the tax bucket and he is pulling up the bucket by the
handles and he is showing the people, see I am lifting the bucket, I am passing the IMF
test, what he does not understand is
the that the tax bucket bottom drop out.
Mr. Speaker taxes are inevitable but Jamaica has reached its taxable limit. The bucket
bottom has dropped out. Going down the road of more taxation is an anti-growth strategy.
The Government has presented a document that doesn‟t advance the conversation on the
growth agenda.
What of the big talk about Logistics Hub. Where are we with that? It is well know we can
have a true hub without air links. Mr. Speaker we left the government with well thought out
plans for Vernamfield. Where is the government on that? Let it be known that a JLP
Government will develop Vernamfield.