Survival Kewangan Kerajaan Sekarang Sangat Bergantung Kepada Cukai Dari Bukan Islam

Syed Akbar Ali,
seorang penganalisis yang realistik

SEORANG ahli perniagaan dan ahli perbankan, yang juga penganalisis ekonomi dan politik terkemuka berpandangan bahawa kerajaan Malaysia sangat bergantung kepada para pembayar cukai di kalangan orang bukan Islam untuk kelangsungan pengurusan kewangan dan ekonomi yang lemah.

Menurut Syed Akbar Ali, belanjawan negara 2020 yang dibentangkan bekas menteri kewangan Lim Guan Eng tahun lalu adalah bersandarkan harga minyak petroleum US$60 setong, dan kini harga minyak di peringkat antarabangsa terus merudum kepada US$40 dan US$30 setong. 

Deputy minister closes Twitter account after uproar over Covid-19 post

Deputy Women and Family Development Minister Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff

PETALING JAYA: Deputy Women and Family Development Minister Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff has apparently closed down her Twitter account after sparking an uproar over a tweet she had made on Covid-19.

The post had read: “The likelihood of dying from the Coronavirus is only 1%, while the possibility of dying at any moment is 100%.

Mahathir’s last go-round

Dr Mahathir Mohamad never answers a political question directly. When journalists asked whether he would make a comeback in the next general election, he said maybe – only if the people will it. He told the press that many people still visit him every day, telling him to contribute his experience to the country.

Every time the country dips into a crisis, only one man could “save” her. And it seems that nobody but the man who held the highest office in the country for 24 years could do so.

Mukhriz has a month to accept PN offer

ALOR SETAR: Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir (pic) has been given a month to consider an offer to join Perikatan Nasional and keep his position, according to sources.

Perikatan insiders revealed that Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, who joined Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia after being sacked from PKR, had been given the task of persuading Mukhriz while Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin worked to reconcile with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the federal level.

A source said while Kedah remains a Pakatan Harapan-ruled state for now, a change of government was inevitable “with or without Mukhriz”.

Legitimacy Vs the Need to Keep the Country Going

IN the beginning I had not wanted to comment on the so-called National Alliance (Perikatan Nasional) Cabinet of Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin because I have problem justifying its democratic and parliamentary legitimacy.

It came into being via a coup against the democratically elected Pakatan Harapan (PH) Government by a ragtag band of PH deserters with the help of co-conspirators from Umno and Pas starting February 23.

The PH came to power on 9 May 2018 by the will of the people. They took risk to oppose and defeat the kleptocratic government of Barisan Nasional (BN).

When Muhyiddin announced his Cabinet, it had received bouquets from the beneficiaries, opportunists and the ignorant, and brickbats the informed and the alienated.

The ignorant would not have known, for instance, that one of the ministers was implicated in insider trading, which is an offence under commercial crime, while several others have questionable background.