A No-Confidence-Motion should be moved against the economic system adopted by the two parties governed the country after the independence and not against a finance minister, JVP leader and Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday.
He said that the economic policies adopted by the two main parties during the past decades from time to time while they were in power has drawn the country’s economy to destruction putting the people in the present financial plight.
He made these observations yesterday joining the debate on the No Confidence Motion moved against Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake by the Joint Opposition.
MP Dissanayake said the two parties have brought the economy to a level that the total earning was not enough to settle the loan installments and the interests of them. He added that the government needed Rs. 23 billion more than the total earnings to settle the loan installments and the interests.
“But this country does not know its total loan amount it has taken,” Dissanayake said. “This budget is an utter failure like all the other past budgets”.
He said the tax that has been imposed by this government is unjustly high and added that when someone gets a mobile reload of Rs. 100 he pays more than Rs. 40 as taxes. The email, cellular phones, internet and such facilities enhances the efficiency. But this government has increased tax immensely on these.
“The IOC earns an extra profit of Rs. 3 billion due to the reduction of the prices and tax. It is divided among several people,” Dissanayake said.
He said Rs. 1,180 million is spent on the ministers’ vehicles. But the tax on the ordinary people is imposed unbearably.
The JVP Leader also said that the members who vote against this motion should also think as to how 180 Prados were released through under-hand deals.
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