Malaysia to introduce GST at 6% from April 2015

[Asterix]

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When Singapore copied the NZ GST system, the ministers were still being paid very poorly.

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Please lah, telling lies again. I am at the same time appalled and delighted that there is a Wikipedia article on the "Cabinet of Singapore" and pay features prominently. From Wiki:

"In 1994, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong received a monthly salary of nearly S$96,000 (about $1.15 million a year), while other ministers earned about $48,900 a month ($586,800 a year). This made them among the highest paid government ministers in the world. In October that year, the Government issued a white paper entitled Competitive Salaries for Competent & Honest Government which proposed that the salaries of ministers and civil servants be pegged at two-thirds the average principal earned income of the top four earners in six professions: accounting, banking, engineering, law, local manufacturing firms and multinational corporations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Singapore

At the rate it is going, Sinkies will be the laughing stock of the world!

 

[Asterix]

Since I have already put the first part in post #15, might as well slowly release the other three parts.

Please continue your discussions on GST, copied WHOLESALE from New Zealand by Ministars who were already the highest paid in the world in 1994 (see post #21).

[video=youtube;WpHeeEHkJwI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpHeeEHkJwI[/video]

 

[Asterix]

There are other articles on Wiki with title “Cabinet of [name your country]”. Curiously, pay was not mentioned in any of the articles that I have seen – Switzerland (you were promised Swiss standard of living remember?); Japan; Germany; France; UK; etc.

Oh, poor daft Sinkies, what have you done!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_Kingdom

 

[Leongsam]

Please lah, telling lies again. I am at the same time appalled and delighted that there is a Wikipedia article on the "Cabinet of Singapore" and pay features prominently. From Wiki:

"In 1994, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong received a monthly salary of nearly S$96,000 (about $1.15 million a year), while other ministers earned about $48,900 a month ($586,800 a year). This made them among the highest paid government ministers in the world. In October that year, the Government issued a white paper entitled Competitive Salaries for Competent & Honest Government which proposed that the salaries of ministers and civil servants be pegged at two-thirds the average principal earned income of the top four earners in six professions: accounting, banking, engineering, law, local manufacturing firms and multinational corporations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Singapore

At the rate it is going, Sinkies will be the laughing stock of the world!

That was hardly a high salary considering the fact that the Singapore economy was enjoying double digit growth.

In fact, I considered them to be under paid at the time.

The current pay is much fairer as it reflects the huge responsibilities that they are burdened with.

 

[Asterix]

That was hardly a high salary considering the fact that the Singapore economy was enjoying double digit growth.

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Even at that time, most Sinkies thought that those salaries were exorbitant, your personal opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. Anyway, one more part to go.

[video=youtube;Tn_XMAi9RfM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_XMAi9RfM[/video]

 

[Asterix]

Last part, bye ...

[video=youtube;MJPQ7hvSxrI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPQ7hvSxrI[/video]

 

[ginfreely]

NZ does exactly the same. GST is applied to everything.

Really? How come Nz not same as Australia? Oh at least NZ cleaner pay is higher than Sg cleaner pay, can afford the GST on basic essential.

 

[bryanlim1972]

protestors often become the puppets of those with an agenda, not always, but usually. of course, this remains paranoid thinking unless there is evidence of it.

sinkies respond to different stimuli as a result of their conditioning.

Man does not live by bread alone
Only useless Sinkies cannot appreciate this
There’re more important things to protest over
This nation like theirs was founded on processions

[video=youtube;tzR4Z3N4dvA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzR4Z3N4dvA[/video]

 

[bryanlim1972]

its high for public service pay, yet low by private sector standards.

if we offered 10k/mth salary for job X, it will attract:
1. people who think 10k/mth is worth a lot of money
2. people who are passionate about job X
but it will also deter:
1. people are think 10k/mth is too little money
2. people who are not passionate or are ambivalent about the job.

high salaries are the logical way out.

Even at that time, most Sinkies thought that those salaries were exorbitant, your personal opinion to the contrary notwithstanding.

That was hardly a high salary considering the fact that the Singapore economy was enjoying double digit growth.

In fact, I considered them to be under paid at the time.

The current pay is much fairer as it reflects the huge responsibilities that they are burdened with.