Everyone can’t be taxed
Dear Editor,
We have a saying in Jamaica, “You must count your cost before you mount your horse”.
This refers to all those who advocate the filing of tax returns by everyone, including the little people who sell a few things by the streetside and don’t earn anything near subsistence level, and even the unemployed, including those who cannot find work and those who have given up seeking jobs not only today but from the dawn of time.
Have the advocates ever considered the cost of creating and maintaining such a system which ultimately must result in scarce and good money chasing those who are either penniless or virtually so?
Come on! Display some God-given intelligence and stop talking nonsense as if everybody is like Mada Bonna, in the Jamaican folk song that says, “Mada Bonna, you hen a lay, it a lay two times a day, it a lay double yolk a day”.
Owen S Crosbie
Mandeville, Manchester
oss@cwjamaica.com
