{"id":5509,"date":"2009-11-03T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T08:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2010-03-13T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T05:00:40","slug":"2106-of-thumbs-up-for-mp-from-bukit-bendera-on-gst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"[2106] Of thumbs up for MP from Bukit Bendera on GST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With respect to the proposed implementation of the goods and services tax, MP Liew Chin Tong said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a huge sum for a study. The Finance Ministry should explain what kind of study this is, who is conducting it and which consultancy firm is handling the study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea of implementing this kind of study needs serious national debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Australia implemented the GST in 1998, it was decided based on a referendum.<\/p>\n<p>We need to debate whether we need the GST or whether the Government should cut down its spending instead&#8221; [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/11\/3\/nation\/20091103161746&amp;sec=nation&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Parliament: Why RM22m for GST study?<\/a><\/em> Zulkifli Abd Rahman. The Star. November 3 2009]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With respect to the proposed implementation of the goods and services tax, MP Liew Chin Tong said: &#8220;This is a huge sum for a study. The Finance Ministry should explain what kind of study this is, who is conducting it and which consultancy firm is handling the study. &#8220;The idea of implementing this kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1021,999,541],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","tag-gst","tag-liew-chin-tong","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}