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This country is on its way to hell in a handbasket. It will take an Act of God to have these idiots removed! May God arise and his enemies be scattered!

You cannot say anything against Mr. Mitchell without a response! As soon as I read Dr. Munroe's comments, I just KNEW he would respond.

Frankly I agree with Dr. Munroe. Mr. Mitchell has an agenda and I am glad to see a Man of God has called him out on it. His time is obviously limited to push the agenda (as you can see from the number of gray hairs in his head) and as he is currently somewhere at the top in Government a blind man can see the agenda is now coming to the surface. Mr. Mitchell just needs to get on with it and come out of the closet!!

"The Super Value owner said the food retail/wholesale industry had received “nothing” from the Government in response to its concerns about recovering only a small portion of VAT ‘input’ tax payments, so the sector would “have to raise prices to compensate."

And so he has! Two weeks ago milk in Super Value was $6.39. It's now $6.89. Yogurt was $3.99. It's now $4.39... and the list goes on. Is anyone paying attention! The business owners are not waiting for VAT. They bringing VAT to the consumer!

Mr. Cash is an intelligent man, Tal, so he likely put this press release together without assistance. The point should not be missed, however, that we need MAJOR tax collection reform. Why this Government insists on moving ahead in implementing a new tax when it is daily being brought to the light the overwhelming flaws in the current tax collection system, is beyond me. Should this time not be better spent in finding an effective way to collect the current outstanding taxes - Real Property Taxes being just one of them? Half of $550 million is about what they were proposing to collect from VAT. I mean the answer is is right in front of them. So how they choose to overlook it and decide to add a new tax is mind boggling - or am I missing something? #justsayin'

When are we going to wake up? All of these fools in Parliament and NOBODY can come up with a better system to collect real property taxes? And yet they seek to implement more? This defies imagination. Whether is it is a "culture which has developed" or not, the point is, it can be amended. Take the egg off your face and pass or amend the law to fix it!

Unless we do something radical, these people have no intention of relenting. Our borders are too darned porous!!

Rory I agree. These sort of comments always get under my skin. They can go to the Haitian Embassy and get a passport. Just because your parents break the law in entering our country illegally (in the majority of cases), then gave birth to you, how does it now make it right for you to get mad at a system that does not rush to give you papers? Blame your parents for breaking the darned law in the first place!

If you want to tax the "Web Shops" then here's an idea. Impose a $1 million dollar fine for every web shop that is found not to be operating as such. The country will be rich overnight.

"Conflicted"? All he has to remember is how the batelco debacle caused Mr. Ingraham the last election. If nothing else he should learn that you ALWAYS listen to the electorate - something that Mr. Ingraham failed to do. If you can't collect the taxes in the system now, how is it that another is being added to an already messed up system? And by the way, National Insurance (a.k.a the National Slush Fund of the Government) IS a payroll tax. Funds are deducted every week/month for foolishness and many persons never make a claim of may likely never get anything back. A payroll tax will only add to the wastage. Trust me, they will find some way to squander it.