And if you continue to increase the taxes on the private sector who pay for the salary for the public sector there soon will be no private sector. Then what is your great plan. Basic economics

The issue is why are the casinos not also taxed.

Hopefully this works as what we have now is an embarrassment. It is obvious Government is unable to maintain these sites, so maybe this new group can. Good luck to them. As a note it has been both PLP and FNM that have not been able to maintain these so both can Carry themselves before either side complains.

All good, though we all know the civil service is overly bloated. So imagine what they could do if they reduced that and then used the savings on providing better service (maybe NHI with good hospitals and clinics, maybe better schools, maybe ensuring no-one goes hungry, hopefully all). This way the tax rate would not need to go up. But if we just increase it as we are so low the level of service would remain the same. Has anyone seen any great change since VAT was introduced?

**"This would inevitably involve new and/or increased taxes, spending cuts or a combination of both to bring the annual fiscal deficit down "** Well we all know what our Governments will choose. Brace for increase taxes, as each Government can never not stop spending so that is not going to happen. Hopefully the straw that breaks our back happens soon.

Or it suggests that you all failed a month ago on the bigger amount.

The title of the article asks a question, which the article fails to answer. There is speculation that the numbers have increased, but no actual data. This is probably one of the most important questions to answer. If we have not seen a general increase in deaths so far this year against the last few years was all the shutdowns worth it. If we have and the shutdowns reduced the deaths then the arguments for the shutdowns is much stronger. Please writer at least answer the question next time.

It is now December. The Virus has been around since March. It took the ERC 6-7 months to show their ideas which was a re-hash of many older ideas (nothing revolutionary), since then nothing. There is no impetus from the government to get anything new going, as they need to work out how it will be a benefit to them first. I for one won't hold out much hope of any real improvements. Also when is the acting Financial Secretary going to become the actual FS? This is getting silly now.

This is all speculation. Can we be given some idea of what the cost would be and the expected benefits. A quick look online showed that some have citizenship given immediately whilst others say residency and then citizenship after X number of years. I saw an article that St. Lucia gets 25% of its public sector funding from this. Who know most may be OK with this idea if it brings in that much a year (doubt it). No point in complaining until we know the deal. As a note the countries that do this vary from St.Lucia for $100,000 to UK for $2 million plus you have to wait 6 years.

Please, the world has never been peaceful and the idea that it was is fanciful. It was always dog eat dog.