CAN THE GOVERNMENT FOOL EVERYONE?
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Willemstad, Curacao. During an interview, Mr. Wim van Lamoen (used to work in Curacao Douane and is an advisor to Syndicate STrAF; Sindikato di Trahadornan di Aduana i Fiskalia, also known as the Union of Customs and Taxation Workers) explained that the reduction in fuel prices by the government, to help the people, is a lie and does not help.
TAKING SOMEONE FOR A FOOL?
Among other things, van Lamoen explained; “To tell you frankly, from the debates that I have heard in Parliament, not really debates, they just talked about some things there. The fact is that it is like taking someone for a fool! Look, at the moment in which we know that there is an international development in terms of Oil, at the moment in which we know that at an international level that Maritime Transport was supplied, we know at this moment, as an example, due to the Pandemic that we went through, a lot of passenger aircraft would be becoming carriers. This means that we have a new development, with that development, we can do a lot of tricks. As they say, take someone for a fool, but it will not work!”
TRANSLATION: [Felicity: 10% - Fidelity: 90% ]
LYING TO THE PEOPLE
He went further; “To say that, for example, that the tax on petroleum gasoline derivatives is going to be reduced to do good for the community, you (the government) are lying to the people! Why do I say that? Because, simply, the derivative that you decrease 'for the people', that the car does not drive or that it does this and that, will not have an effect on the basic food basket (makutu basiko), and on people's income.
Why? Because, right now, when you're decreasing that (fuel), you're charging for merchandise revenue, like three (3) to four (4) times more than what you originally charged! Why? Air freight and shipping charges increased. Now, a lift valued at $5,000, became $20,000, that is, only one (1) container shipment. Can you imagine, the expense of the 15,000 dollars that they added in that uprising? Where does it go and where does it end? It ends in expenses, in the cost of the merchandise. If before the merchandise cost 10,000, and the lifting cost 20,000, that's 30,000, and with the insurance 5,000, that's 35,000. Instead of paying a lift of 5,000 before, now you are paying more, calculating everything, now you are paying that lift and the purchase cost of the merchandise. Tax is charged on that.
So, when it comes time to collect the tax, you are collecting it on the lift, which is already overcharged (on karga)! Which means that you (the government) are pretending that you are doing the right thing by reducing your gas consumption, it is a complete lie! You absolutely did not help at all! Because the merchandise that needs to be on the racks (supermarkets), has the lifting price and has the import price as well.
If before the product cost 1 guilder, now it costs 4 guilders. An import duty recharge (invoerrechten) is already charged! So you will end up paying 4 guilders, not 1 guilder. What it means, (for the government) to do like, lower gas prices is to help people, it's not to help people with nothing, it's the opposite of that! In what was not loaded on gasoline, it was loaded elsewhere! You went and charged who? You (the government) charged the people who have nothing!”
TRANSLATION: [Felicity: 10% - Fidelity: 90% ]
OVERALL TRANSLATION: FELICITY:12% / FIDELITY:88%
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