Source: Democratic Alliance
Title: Doman: The Property Rates Bill
Oscar Ameringer said:
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other."
This is exactly what this bill does. Take for example the stakeholders from welfare organisations and independent schools who made strenuous representations for exclusion from paying property rates with formidable arguments.
The Committees response was to find a balance between the need for municipalities to have adequate revenue to fulfil their constitutionally-mandated, developmental responsibilities and the need to avoid levying rates in a way that will debilitates these categories of property owners who also play an invaluable developmental goal.
So it must be true what somebody said: "A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground."
The ANC members would pride themselves with the saying:
"There are two sides to every question - and a good politician takes both."
We in the DA would rather advocate what William Gaylin said:
"The translation of values into public policy is what politics is about."
Daarom sou die DA wou sien dat privaatskole waarvan die leerlingtal al 58% swart is, vrygestel moet wees van eiendomsbelasting. Staatskole se eiendomsbelasting word deur die staat betaal. Privaatskole bestaan beslis nie om wins te maak nie, maar moet hul boeke balanseer in die proses om gehalte onderwys te verskaf.
Ouers by privaatskole dra deur hul belasting by tot staatskole en sal nou nog die eiendomsbelasting ook moet betaal terwyl hulle alreeds ekstra vir privaatskole bydra. Die regering behoort waardering vir hul bydrae tot onderwys te erken In dieselfde asem is dit teleurstellend dat welsynsorganisasies wat ter wille van die gemeenskap n ekstra myl loop ook nie uitgesluit word van eiendomsbelasting nie. Dit is immers die publiek wat bo en behalwe hul persoonlike inkomste-, eiendoms- en ander belasting n bydrae maak tot welsyn van die gemeenskap waar die staat tekort skiet.
Die DA wil n beroep op munisipaliteite doen om hul goeie oordeel toe te pas en hierdie twee kategorie
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