五月五 换政府

2008全国大选，国阵以140席侥幸获胜。若非沙巴及砂拉越稳胜49席，只怕国阵必定败选。

民联安华哥摆明阵局要在9月16 日大变天。企图透过沙巴及砂拉越两州49议员跳槽夺取国会多数议席，以此改朝换代。

国阵伯拉哥听到炮声，吓了一裤子尿。赶紧带了全国国阵议员到台湾公干，以免安华哥钓蛙。

毕竟安华哥太张扬了，给伯拉哥走快两步。安华哥的炮声是打得响，可惜没打中目标。916没变天。

其实，国阵之首的巫统只占了140席之69席，实在是独党难鸣。若国阵其他党员被他而去，巫统一定不能当家。说实在，马华和国大党在国阵也没权没势，其代表的族群也被边沿化，甚至被欺骗、侮辱、欺压。在公，是没有理由留下的了。在私，除了为了私利，还有什么理由？

沙巴及砂拉越的国阵议员为何留下？加入马来西亚55年，沙巴及砂拉越还是全国最穷的州属。虽然资源丰富、地灵人杰，沙砂两州还是没有分到发展这杯羹。令人费解的是沙砂人民还是那么支持国阵。盲目跟从、满足现状？若是百姓满足了，为何怨声四起？若是百姓盲从，为了什么出卖尊严？若是发展了，为何无水无电无路无业？议员们都也盲了？还是口袋满了？难道还为宗教？民族？环保？还是钱？权？色？还是义气？一口气？还是畏强势？怕恶势力？还是怕穷？怕入狱？

退一步想一想，若沙砂两州半数议员跟安华哥塔上了，恐怕国阵已难当家。这个道理，区区一个小王子都想到，何况各位大哥大姐，何况各位议员。就算不跳槽，单以49之尊，可左右政权也！King maker嘞！应该可以为百姓讨些好处了吧？！49个议员，难道都没有一个义士？

2008去了。222个议员的面目都看清了吧？

2013．等着瞧吧！五月五，换政府。

王子 学 外语 之 Help ！

“You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.”

English idiom

You do a favor for me and I'll do a favor for you.; If you do something for me that I cannot do for myself, I will do something for you that you cannot do for yourself.

“You help me, I help you.”

Najib Razak, 2010 May 15^th

The Prime Minister of Malaysia, ( leader of the ruling collation BN ) Najib Razak during his visit to Rejang Park, a Chinese majority housing estate in Sibu, Sarawak, campaigning for SUPP’s Robert Lau during Sibu parliamentary by-election.  Najib promised the voters RM5 million to alleviate floods if Robert Lau win the seat.

The by-election was won by DAP’s Richard Wong by a simple majority of 398 votes.

Najib’s vote-buying promises were deem morally inappropriate for some, yet anyone sensible would know its a broad daylight bribery.  The Malaysian Parliament claimed that  Najib did not violating Election Offences Act.   In 2009, the Federal Court made a decision that promises to bring development during election campaign are not an act of bribery.

Till today, many parts of Sibu remain flood-prone, in addition to tones of other perennial problems.

Income Tax

Its time to file for income tax, again.

• Individual relief = RM9,000.

• Which means, RM750/month, or RM25/day for all expenses, including food,  accommodation, transportation, household expenses, utilities, clothing, entertainment etc.. How can anyone living in a city survive with RM750/month, with the ever-rising living cost ?

• Rebate for books = RM1,000. Anyone spending that kind of money for books ?

• Rebate for broadband subscription = RM500. mana cukup ?

• Rebate for house installment = RM10,000. Why only for property bought between 10^th March 2009 till 31 December 2010 ?

• Minimum taxable income ( for a singleton ) = RM2,450 net

• if we calculate it backward, Minimum taxable income ( RM2,450 ) = [ Annual Income ( RM17,856 ) – Individual rebate( RM9,000 ) – EPF ( RM6,000 ) ] -  Tax relief ( RM400 ). 

• Thus, an average singleton earns more than RM1,488/month are taxable.  Unless he/she is entitled to a lot more of rebates and reliefs.

• In 2010, there are 5.5 million registered individual taxpayers in Malaysia ( NST, Tax refunds in 30 days, 24 Mar 2012 ), out of 11,129,400 employed labour force ( Department of Statistics, Principal Statistic of the Labour Force, 1982-2011 ).

• Which means, of 11,129,400 employed labour, almost half of them are not paying tax, either they earn less than RM1,488/month, or simply don’t pay.   

• Per capita income of average Malaysian = USD9,656 ( @ RM28,968  º RM2,414/month )  ( World Bank, 1990-2010 )

• Average Malaysian’s income are taxable, why only half of the workforce pay tax?

  

• IRB collected RM15,574.59 million in 2009 from individual taxpayers. (  IRB Annual Report, 2009 )

• IRB’s Annual Report dare not to publish the number of taxpayers, why?  How many taxpayers contributed to the tax revenue ?