Adv. Anton Alberts: FF Plus MP said:
The Freedom Front Plus rejects Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s plea for a white tax as being racist and thoughtless. It borders on the emotional statements of Julius Malema and does not contribute to the debate on how to address the country’s economic problems properly. “It is improper to single out white people as they have already for the past 17 years contributed disproportionately more to the fiscus than any other group. The request for introspection and a greater moral contribution should instead be addressed to the ANC government itself. Tutu’s race argument is so much more immoral if one considers the fact that there are already more than 600 000 poor whites. Why would Tutu, a man of the cloth, want to target these defenceless people? How will Tutu be getting any taxes from these impoverished people?” Adv. Anton Alberts, the parliamentary spokesperson on Economic Affairs for the Freedom Front Plus, asked.
“A recent report of Adcorp revealed further shocking facts that the state is the only institution which had created jobs in 2011. That means that the ANC government in effect has actually ‘nationalised’ job-creation through the maladministration of the economy. We have now reached the unsustainable situation where an oppressed white tax basis has to pay taxes for black positions in the public service,” Alberts added.
The crux of the problem however lies therein that the ANC has in the past 17 years made itself guilty of the wasting of taxpayer’s money through, amongst others, corruption, cadre deployment, poor appointments, unsound policies – such as affirmative action and BEE – and poor planning. The FF Plus believes that the state cannot be responsible for job-creation but that the state should rather empower the private sector to be able to create jobs which would in turn increase the tax basis. Taxes levied on white people will merely be damaging social cohesion and will not contribute anything toward a sustainable economy.
