when you know your mommy's right

to: tipsfortrevor@treasury.gov.za
subject: Budget 2007

Dear Sir,

I believe that there should be no additional tax relief for companies or for individuals earning more than R 600,000.00 per annum.

The money that is 'saved' by not cutting taxes for those at the top end of the earnings ladder should be used for staffing our essential institutions.

It is essential that nurses, teachers, other health professionals, policemen and prison warders and prosecutors, all the people that make this country work, are better trained and better paid so that they are motivated to stay in these essential services. Nurse and teacher training colleges should be re-opened while we still have qualified people to man them, and if the qualified educators are white, so be it.

Prisoners should be made to work to contribute towards their keep so that less of the budget is needed for Correctional Services especially as we do need more prisons, run more efficiently, as the crime rate spirals.

The affirmative action that has cost us skills has the most expensive part of our new dispensation. If the skills are available, it is silly to appoint people on the basis of colour/gender. We need to get past that. Our country needs to employ the best to get the best for everyone, and service delivery will improve immediately.

i wish i could believe that trevor would take her seriously.