The Perils of Mentally Challenged Running a Country
NER: The title of this article is derived from a statement made by the retarded President of South Africa before he took office. He stated that when he came to power, he would treat the Whites like the proverbial frog in boiling water, until there were none in the country. With his limited intellect, he would neither understand that this would destroy the economy, nor would he think that matters. Hence South Africa has been on the road to a failed state for 30 years of ANC goatherder rule.
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The frogs that lay the golden eggs
On this basis, the white elite will pay R 320,4 billion in income tax and the white middle class will contribute an additional R 63,2 billion – R 383,6 billion in all.
According to the Budget Review the top decile paid 39,8% of VAT in 2022/23. The second and third deciles paid 17.2% and 11,3% respectively. On the basis of the Zizzamia study the white contribution to VAT will be R123.5 billion.
This rough calculation gives us a conservative estimate of R 600,4 billion for the white contribution to national revenue.
Now let’s look at the expenditure side. Total state spending this financial year will be R2,592 trillion. The white share of the R 1,065 trillion budget for general services will be R82 billion, reflecting their 7.2% share of the population.
White children comprise 4,3% of the 12,6 million children in state schools and will cost the state R14,6 billion this year. The 11% of university students who are white will cost the state another R16. 1 billion. If one third of whites make use of state medical services, their share of the health budget will be R7,2 billion. Hardly any whites benefit from other social services and transfers with a combined budget this year of R709 billion.
Very few whites complain about this because it is accepted throughout the world that those with higher incomes should pay progressively higher taxes. This is despite the additional hundreds of billions of rand that whites pay each year from their after-tax incomes for private education, health and security services.
Also, there have been enormous changes in tax and benefit shares since 1994. According to a 1992 IMF study, in 1987 whites paid 71% of taxes and received 35% of benefits. Now they pay 30% of taxes and receive back 4,6% in general services and social benefits. Non-white South Africans now pay more than twice as much in tax as whites and receive more than 95% of the services and benefits. They also spend more on private education, health care and security than whites do.
Nevertheless, the R600 billion white contribution reflects their still enormous and disproportionate contribution to the economy and to job creation.
31 years after 1994 whites are still regarded as the principal antagonists in the ANC’s ideological struggle to establish the National Democratic Society (NDS). In the NDS, the utopian culmination of the NDR, everything – all wealth, all property and all jobs – will be shared on the basis of the country’s demographics. As Cyril Ramaphosa put it in February, 2014, “Race will remain an issue until all echelons of our society are demographically representative.”
This process will be accelerated by white emigration. Almost half a million whites have emigrated since 2000. As the ANC is no doubt aware, more will leave if private health care is eviscerated by the NHI; if property rights are undermined by expropriation without compensation; if private security companies are emasculated by recently announced regulations – and if what remains of functional state education is eroded by the BELA Act. Blacks, Coloureds and Indians from the elite and middles classes – who are the main consumers of these private services – will also consider emigration.
All developments in South Africa must be viewed against this bleak backdrop. In the ANC’s statement of 12 April – in which it more or less recommitted itself to the GNU – it insisted that it “remains rooted in its values and resolutions (i.e. EWC, the NHI and BBBEE) and will not compromise on the fundamental goals of social and economic justice, equality and transformation” (i.e. RET and the NDR).
Ironically, the ANC would have achieved far greater redistribution of wealth If it had continued President Mbeki’s pragmatic economic policies that had achieved 5% economic growth between 2005 and 2007. Had they maintained economic growth at this pace, the economy would be twice as large as it is now, and the non-white share of income would have been commensurately greater. Everyone would have won – but now, because of the ANC’s NDR ideology, everyone stands to lose.
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