Pakatan 100 Days populist promises

From MM Online:

Malaysian housewife 

In its election manifesto launched Thursday, PH had pledged to allow housewives to have an EPF account within 100 days of it taking over Putrajaya.
PH said it would, as the federal government, contribute RM50 per month for each housewife as a sign of appreciation, while two per cent would be taken from the EPF contributions of the housewives’ working husbands.

In a separate Utusan Malaysia report, Barisan Nasional women’s wing chief Tan Sri Shahrizat Jalil similarly asked if PH considered housewives to be their husbands’ employees, adding that the ruling coalition’s women wing felt such a promise reduces a wife’s status in comparison to the husband.

She also questioned if the federal Opposition had considered the potential income tax that housewives may have to bear when receiving the EPF contributions, as EPF account holders have to have a stated income amount.

I'm afraid I've to ask a few questions as well.

If the husband effectively pays the wife (via a 2% deduction legislated by the Pakatan government), she then becomes an employee of the husband who is effectively an employer.

That's what Shahrizat has meant by reducing a wife’s status to that of an employee of the husband.

There are also other issues like alimony in a divorce case. Does a man pay alimony to an employee he has just terminated the service of?

While I appreciate the Pakatan laudatory attempt to provide for housewives, it should provide more details rather than just populist promises, like the silly empty promise of removing the GST within 100 days. In fact by removing the GST and replacing it with the non-transparent SST it will make some goods MORE expensive.

The Kajang by-election move was an example of PKR bullshit where Pakatan was duped into believing the by-election could bring it nearer to Putrajaya than it was, but the outcome was worse, with that coalition breaking up because of that PKR unilateral action in forcing a by-election in Kajang just for its intra party tussle.

 

The other impracticality is to allow postponing and/or reduction in the re-payment of the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN). You'll be shocked at HOW MUCH borrowers have owed the fund.

I met a loan officer some years back who told me they have to work very very hard to get the re-payment process going as the majority of Malaysians who took loans are noted to be irresponsibly tidakapa and act "dunno" about the necessary re-payment.

Pakatan, don't make it f**king more difficult.