Platform Komun Syndikal Fin Ekrir A Ban Parlmanter

Dan en let sinq paz, zot fin explike, sif a lapwi, ki BRP e nu welfer steyt sutenab me seki pa sutenab se sa pwazon de flat tax 15% ki Sithanen ti servi popilasion apartir 2006. Zot fin dir ki rasio BRP/GDP ki fin okip deba piblik dernie 13 mwa pu bese ek en BRP de 100 milyar rupi an 2035 pu tu to krwasans aniel mwayin siperyer a 2.2% ki en to vreman insinifian konsideran potansiel Moris.

PKS fin osi expos dega katastrofik ki flat tax 15% Sithanen in fer a Moris depi 2006 e kuma sa fin fer an sort ki nu lekonomi de fwa edmi pli tipti ki seki li bizin ete an 2026.

PKS fin osi fer plizir propozision pu ogmant reveni guvernman e fin termin let la par dir ki zot ti va prefer ena ban konsiltasion sinser ek guvernman e fer ban parlmanter remarke ki laful dan manifestasion le 11 Ziyet 2026 dan Por-Lwi in fini vot pu en lagrev zeneral.

U kav lir let la isi.

Anu Fak-Tiek Diskur Ramgoolam A Nu Ban Gran Dimun

Sanjay Jagatsingh · Fact-check diskur Navin a nu ban vie dimun

Happy International Fact-checking Day!

Fact-checking is the lifeblood of democracies. So here's a mega transfusion for the Mauritian democracy.

Fact-checking Sithanen.

Fact-checking Subron.

Fact-checking Navin.

Fact-checking SAJ on a popular topic.

Fact-checking Pravind on the tram.

Fact-checking Arvin.

Fact-checking Berenger on two important issues.

Fact-checking playlist.

Fact-checking gem to download on your Apple device.

The Jag! After 2016

The last time we took stock of the output there we had just finished the fifth part in our series on electoral reform. Since then we've added four more pieces in that thread and thirty-nine other posts till now. There were no articles last year though, the first time since 2016 but it's not the longest drought period on that blog. I have a good excuse. 2024 looks better with already two and both of them are in kreol. The first one was an analysis on six pledges of the LP/MMM/PMSD alliance – it uses four of our clips – and the last on why six titans of the Mauritius Labour Party are unlikely to vote for Navin Ramgoolam in 2024 or for the other two main parties for that matter.

Of course Covid-19 happened during this 7-year period which explains why we had pieces on the vaccination status and jabs to buy in 2022 after we had become less ignorant about viruses. That was also the year of the 75th anniversary of India's independence. We published one piece on the Gentle Elephant when it was Midnight on August 15 in Bharat. Two days earlier we wrote a post on faith which started with a tribute to an extraordinary actor that said goodbye during the pandemic. We also investigated who's been the longest-serving General Secretary of the MLP. 

Other pieces included celebrating the 90th anniversary of a maverick, the Pope's visit, ideas to roll back drug use, an interesting piece on transport policy, comments on the offerings in the 2019 general election, fact-checking a toxic politician, decolonisation, the Central Water Authority, the World Bank and economic miracles. Plus one on the importance of the national currency in determining the wealth of a nation and another on an infamous anniversary. And more.

That's a lot of good stuff to read don't you think?

People Are Not Falling That Easily For Anti-Modi Propaganda Now

Fact-Checking A Few Sithanen Statements

He said recently that his flat tax had increased government revenue by 20% in the first year of its implementation, that it had attracted a lot of investments from abroad, produced growth rates of more than 5% and had created 10,000 jobs per year. 

1. Government revenue may increase if growth is better or if you increase the tax rate or tax more things. Growth had increased in 2006 because the economy rebounded after the big textile contraction. He should tell us by how much revenue increased in every year since his flat tax was implemented. Besides the main reason to slash top tax rates to 15% was to get 8% growth rates. As chart shows we never got those growth rates even in the decade following the end of the Great Recession – just check how many consecutive years we didn’t even get half of that. And this will cause a government revenue shortfall approaching Rs360bn at the end of the year. 

2. We surely got a lot of FDI (Rs189bn between 2006 and 2018) but this pales in comparison to the Rs570bn savings missing after he killed the savings culture. And the FDI has mostly been speculative ensuring that thousands will not be able to become home-owners. 

3. Finally what kind of jobs are we talking here? Definitely not good jobs. Otherwise growth rates would have been higher, savings would have rebounded and there would never had been the need for the controversial stimulus package.