Comments on: Say hello to the bad guy, your benefactor

By: Hugh Robinson

Hugh Robinson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:08:09 +0000

Great reading but you left out that other great sin. Owning a car. Ministers are of coarse never subject to these taxes as they fill up at the government garage. That is either free for business or charged at R3.50/lt or they are paid to use their cars per km.

If they buy groceries at the Government store they do not pay VAT and they get duty free everything.

By: crackpot

crackpot — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:32:18 +0000

bad guy is flavour of the month. check out “die antwoord”, if you been under a rock and don’t know the flavour of bad that’s getting the interweb all hot under the collar and down below at the same time. Bad, mad and smoking hot. down with the pleasantries and pretences. we’re all human after all. and sparing monks and…monks, we all enjoy a little dop, even priests. HYPOCRACY, and MONEY. The two real evils, not dop and ciggys.

By: Peace In Our Time

Peace In Our Time — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:07:13 +0000

To all taxpayers regardless of colour who also pay their normal taxes so that three other people can live off them not to mention our extremely highly paid and protected politicians thank you too for not leaving and going “home” wherever that may be. I do not smoke or drink but thank yo guys for your contributions. Mine comes from tranquillisers and tablets to keep me alive which I have to pay very heavily for.

By: Siyabonga Ntshingila

Siyabonga Ntshingila — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:36:05 +0000

@ Spearpoint- The Sumo believes that route would prove successful in but a week.

By: Sibusiso

Sibusiso — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:25:38 +0000

Nice one Bongz, see the thing is no one stand for the truth, we just wanna tag along and be safe or rather keep the peace

By: MLH

MLH — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:14:10 +0000

Excellent!

How about explaining that we are all victims of South Africa’s political circumstances. I t must be Zuma who makes us drink and smoke!

By: Spearpoint

Spearpoint — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:31:06 +0000

Well shaid, that man! Hic.

They nail us sinners with huge taxes – more than enough to pay for all the (usually) later health effects of booze and smokes – yet still have the nerve to berate and belittle us because of the alleged costs of our stress-relievers. Perish the thought, but maybe we smokers and dipsomaniacs should actually quit – we’d bring the economy to its knees in a month

By: sela

sela — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:30:35 +0000

Thank you for some common sense at last!

By: Alan in Botswana

Alan in Botswana — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:11:16 +0000

And then they take those sin taxes and pretend to use them for the public benerfit. Yeah right. Like we all benefit from R1 million cars and bask in the glorious vapour trail of the arms deal. It’s enough to drive a man to drink, if he could afford a car.

By: Nicci Marais

Nicci Marais — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:58:29 +0000

hear hear >well said!