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- Speak Up Saint Lucians, Speak Up
- Should Saint Lucia Join The Caribbean Court Of Jus...
- Painting the Wind: The ambition and frustration of...
- Observing CARICOM’s Crabs…..
- Is technology hurting our human development? (Part 2)
- Confusion At Wimbledon
- Comments of Evans Calderon on the CCJ
- Analysis of the Report on the Financial Operations...
- A Time For Action
- Saint Lucia on Tier 2 Watch List
- GROOVY FINALISTS NAMED
- “You Are Extraordinary” Says Digicel To Kids
- “You Are Extraordinary” Says Digicel To Kids
- USA & Canadian Industry Insiders Prepare For Saint...
- Making it Easier to Do Business in St. Lucia!
- Employers’ Federation Launches Handbook on the Lab...
- Unplanned Settlements
- Training For Educators Pursuing EEICTP’S Advanced ...
- TODAY IS CARABOBO
- Nation building
- “Men’s Fair”
- Jim Snow Needs Gigs!
- Victory For Bonne Terre Again In Primary School Sw...
- STRONG ST.LUCIA TEAM
- St. Lucian Boxers for Martinique Card this coming ...
- Jean Philippe Murray In COTRCC Top Three
- Digicel Continues Its Support For W.I. Captain
- CRUCIAL GAME TONIGHT
- 2013 BOSL / Guy Memorial Starts tomorrow
- To All Secondary School Graduates: Never Give Up o...
- Stubbornness at the helm is destroying our Country
- St Lucia government called upon to clarify intenti...
- Praedial Larceny
- Pope Francis Says Thanks
- Pope Francis: Starvation in a world of plenty “sca...
- NWU and RBTT successfully complete negotiations
- More Questions for Chastanet from SLP Soufriere Group
- LPM leader unperturbed by Clarke’s belittling
- Choiseul/SaltibusTownhall welcomed by Constituents
- Carnival Band Registration
- THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL -- MESSAGE ON THE INTERNA...
- “UWP NEEDS CHANGE”
- Electric Cars for Saint Lucia
- PALIG Brings Innovation to St. Lucia
- PALIG Brings Innovation to St. Lucia
- Daily Markets Wrap Up – Monday, June 24th, 2013
- Seed Funds Awarded for Joint Projects between The ...
- LIME Embraces Local Artistes!
- LIME One Rate Hits The Spot!
- Digicel Connects with its ‘Caring Connections’ Pro...
- Bay Gardens Resorts Introduces New ‘Stay & Play 75...
- The Royal hosts Carnival Princesses
- Preparations for Schools Extempo Intensify
- NIC Toastmasters Installation and Awards Ceremony ...
- Nation Building 50
- Tough Going for St.Lucians Faulkner and Caesar In ...
- St. Lucian Golfers Can Qualify For Scottish Tourna...
- St.Lucia’s Platinum FC third in SVG Regional Small...
- Martinique defeats St.Lucia to win Coldu’s Shield
- Levern Spencer end’s her 1st European Tour For 2013
- Facebook Fan Chooses Name for CPL Mascot
- COMBINED SCHOOLS AND COURTS JETS 1 UP
- 20th St. Lucia Squash Open Served Off Last Evening
- Talkin’ Trash
- STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP - 29TH June, 2013 at M...
- Regional Conference on Youth Employability
- “Conditions Are Not Unique”
- Of Saints and Saviours
- No ‘Freeness’ at New Hospital
- Couple arrested at hotel for drugs
- Civil Registry to Perform Better?
- 18 FOR KAISO SEMIS
- SYTOP’s 4thSeason Summer Drug Free Expose’
- SLTB Endorses ‘Amy Stephen’ For 2013 Carnival Quee...
- Precision Productions Out of T & T Does It Again!!!
- Leverage North Stars Steel Orchestra
- Jookay Video
- Jazz in the South
- Dreams
- Electricity Rates Lower This Year Than Last
- Digicel Endorses ‘Ricky T’ As Its ‘Be Extraordinar...
- Digicel Sponsors An Extraordinary Carnival Queen C...
- ‘Because My Boss Said So’
- Junior Achievement’s 17th Annual Record Keeping Wo...
- Insurance Corner
- Market Watch
- DIGICEL Group Records 8% Revenue Growth In Its Ful...
- Accreditation: Facilitating World Trade
- 10,361 new members join ACCA in 2012 / 13
- Pass It Along…Or Else
- What type of Lease do you hold?
- What a Wick: the last 7 days in 12 (15th to 21st J...
- Rights of the Indigenous People of Saint Lucia – P...
- Is technology hurting our human development?
- “Elder” World Awareness Day
- Dixon’s ‘Beloved Country’
- Becoming a Justice of the Peace
- Analysis of the Report on the Financial Operations...
- NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
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5 comments:
Taxation is a minefield for most of those that form the political directorate in these countries. They have no creativity nor hands-on knowledge of public finance, nor business, nor management. So where will their ideas come from?
Everybody is working from some sort of "fixed economic pie" model.
Public Administration capacity is at an all time low in the region.
Some are trying to graft certain concepts from the private sector, onto the public sector, only to butt heads with MPs who know precious little of the inner workings of either the public or the private sectors.
Yes,reduce the taxes on intra island tourism; but keep them in place on other destinations, until there is reciprocity.
What is the tourism spend from inter-island tourism again? Saint Lucians must think strategically and NOT emotionally.
Inter-island travel has NEVER been the same thing as inter-island tourism.
Examine the nature and characteristics carefully with respect to carriers, spending patterns, and lodging.
There are significant differences which require much greater calibration than our inept public services and ministers are capable of handing skillfully, or are prepared to address.
We can no longer base public and taxation policy on pure and unfounded emotionalism.
Those policies must be informed by rigorous data-based calculations and conclusions. We must avoid at all cost, the slippery slope of political stupidity and economic idiocy.
@ 10:38AM: For a data freak,you are sure tight-ass with numbers. You must stop regurgitating the same old BS....show us the money!!
@ June 26, 2013 at 11:30 AM,
The answer is very straightforward. If the job being done is not worth more, then it is NOT ever going to pay more. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it. Inhale, idiot. Inhale.
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