Our presidents must pay tax – I fully support this motion

Read Comments Comments (12)

• Bossman Antwi 11 years ago

  In your conclusion, after making good arguments on your own topic, you said:
  
  "I humbly suggest to the CRIC and Ghanaians to reject the Mahama Administration’s thinking about governance at the local level and give power b ...
  read full comment

  In your conclusion, after making good arguments on your own topic, you said:
  
  "I humbly suggest to the CRIC and Ghanaians to reject the Mahama Administration’s thinking about governance at the local level and give power back to the people", which invalidates everything good about your perspective.
  
  Do you think you are better than the Mahama that Ghanaians voted into office while rejecting you at Election 2012?
  
  You are a pathetic, lost soul to be pitied!!

  reply
• AdaBoy 11 years ago

  Africans blame colonialist for most of problems,but could believe that a constitution written by Africans for Africans would have clause that exclude the highest paid people from paying any taxes.On top of that,our parliament ...
  read full comment

  Africans blame colonialist for most of problems,but could believe that a constitution written by Africans for Africans would have clause that exclude the highest paid people from paying any taxes.On top of that,our parliament has rubber stamped the free travel allowances, medical expenses,housing,cars,food and other perks.If the ones who have the capacity to contribute are excluded by law,have we not removed fairness from the system? The Ghanaian constitution in it's current form is false and greater evil than any other perpetuated against the poor working classes in this country.

  reply
• go fuck your self 11 years ago

  Are you telling me that this bums and idiots in goverment in Ghana dont pay taxes, why, what is it that these asholes do that is so speciall, nothing, they are firsl class thifs they steal from the people and continue to do s ...
  read full comment

  Are you telling me that this bums and idiots in goverment in Ghana dont pay taxes, why, what is it that these asholes do that is so speciall, nothing, they are firsl class thifs they steal from the people and continue to do so, and you people dont se that, the rest of the world se it, but you,...no no...is it because you are blind or just pane dumb?
  
  Chasw this mahama to hell, burn him alive and all the other fucking thifs and confiscate all there belongings, money and everything else before you get rid of them, your political system is never going to work, because the only two parties you got, is equally corrupted....to hell with them all...

  reply
• JAMREAH 11 years ago

  INCOME IS MONEY EARNED.ALL REVENUE MUST BE TAXED.IN NORTH AMERICA CHURCHES DECLARE TAXES BUT IN GHANA WE REFUSE TO PAY TAXES.SALARIES,HOURLY WAGES OVERTIME AND ANY ADDITIONAL EARNINGS ARE TAXED.I SUGGEST THAT EVERY OFFICER,MP ...
  read full comment

  INCOME IS MONEY EARNED.ALL REVENUE MUST BE TAXED.IN NORTH AMERICA CHURCHES DECLARE TAXES BUT IN GHANA WE REFUSE TO PAY TAXES.SALARIES,HOURLY WAGES OVERTIME AND ANY ADDITIONAL EARNINGS ARE TAXED.I SUGGEST THAT EVERY OFFICER,MP PRESIDENT MUST PAY TAX ARREARS FROM 1992-2014.IN THE USA YOU MUST DECLARE YOUR INCOME TO THE REVENUE AUTHORITIES OR YOU FACE SEVERE PUNISHMENT.

  reply
• KK 11 years ago

  Is not Mahamas adm. that made the law not to pay Tax

  Is not Mahamas adm. that made the law not to pay Tax

  reply
• HAZOR 11 years ago

  If the presidency is allow to pay tax,it will bring transparency,probity and accountability.It will also help club corruption and embazzlement at various agencies and ministries.Do you think if late president Mills was a tax ...
  read full comment

  If the presidency is allow to pay tax,it will bring transparency,probity and accountability.It will also help club corruption and embazzlement at various agencies and ministries.Do you think if late president Mills was a tax payer will he encourage the dubious judgement debts pay to criminal individuals for work not done or the opposition in parliament not doing their work help NDC approve $306million which expect said is estimate should worth $162million.This is a commonsense we all have to support.The animal farm doctrine has been expose.If the presidency refuse to pay tax all hell will break loose and we will all stop paying taxes.

  reply
• Samuel Asare-Nkansah(USA) 11 years ago

  Oh my God!Is it true that the president,vice president,speaker of the house and others do not pay taxes?It was a shocker to me.Who the hell created this law and why should Ghanaians tolerate this? Even in America(USA),the pre ...
  read full comment

  Oh my God!Is it true that the president,vice president,speaker of the house and others do not pay taxes?It was a shocker to me.Who the hell created this law and why should Ghanaians tolerate this? Even in America(USA),the president and his staff are made to pay taxes.Moreover,these people travel abroad free of charge for medical chech ups if the need arises. Please Ghanaians repeal this law immediately.It was not created by God and for that matter,it can be ammended.Didn't the previous governments have the vision and wisdom to even think about aborting this stupid decree,law or whatever you call it? Problems in Ghana are the result of lack of leadership i.e vision to see proactively correct problems before they happen and even if the problem has been created, the vision to correct it.WE WANT LEADERS IN GHANA NOT CEREMONIAL PRESIDENTS OR MANAGERS.

  reply
• Alfa 11 years ago

  It is very sad indeed. I want all Ghanaians to cast their minds back to the days and remember that, this so called constitution was written and signed into law under the eyes of J. J. Rawlings, the savior of the common people ...
  read full comment

  It is very sad indeed. I want all Ghanaians to cast their minds back to the days and remember that, this so called constitution was written and signed into law under the eyes of J. J. Rawlings, the savior of the common people of Ghana.

  reply
• Samuel Asare-Nkansah(USA) 11 years ago

  And he claims to be perfect,sin-free,solver of all social vices. This amounts to stealing and discrimination. Low-wage earning,tax-paying and hardworking Ghanaians are exercising thier rights and love for thier country and so ...
  read full comment

  And he claims to be perfect,sin-free,solver of all social vices. This amounts to stealing and discrimination. Low-wage earning,tax-paying and hardworking Ghanaians are exercising thier rights and love for thier country and some high ranking individuals are not paying taxes and living off the taxes of the lowly paid.Mr. Rawlings, IS THIS FAIR?
  WAKE UP MY FELLOW GHANAIANS!!

  reply
• Joe Kojo 11 years ago

  Let us all go on the streets of every city, metropolis, districts, constituencies, the path ways of every village to demonstrate against all these selfish politicians who dont pay taxes, and force them to pay all their tax ar ...
  read full comment

  Let us all go on the streets of every city, metropolis, districts, constituencies, the path ways of every village to demonstrate against all these selfish politicians who dont pay taxes, and force them to pay all their tax arrears!!!!

  reply
• Joe Kojo 11 years ago

  Paa kwesi himself will have to pay all his tax arrears.

  Paa kwesi himself will have to pay all his tax arrears.

  reply
• Kofi Osei 11 years ago

  USA
  American pests develop resistance to ‘deadly’ toxins in GM maize – research
  March 18, 2014 18:47
  
  Corn rootworm on the roots of a corn plant. (Photo by Sarah Zukoff / flickr.com)
  Genetically modified corn, whic ...
  read full comment

  USA
  American pests develop resistance to ‘deadly’ toxins in GM maize – research
  March 18, 2014 18:47
  
  Corn rootworm on the roots of a corn plant. (Photo by Sarah Zukoff / flickr.com)
  Genetically modified corn, which produces anti-pest toxin, is no longer as efficient at killing the bugs. The resistance arose quickly, due to some extent, to farmers avoiding the simple, but profit-cutting precaution of crop rotation.
  The problem that may soon render null the economic and environmental benefits of GM maize, which produces the so-called Bacillus thurinigiensis (Bt) toxin, was highlighted in a study published online in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  
  In the paper, a team led by Aaron Gassmann, an entomologist at Iowa State University in Ames, described the rise in some Iowa fields of a bug called the western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera).
  
  The studied pest has developed resistance to two of three types of Bt toxins currently available on the market.
  
  The vulnerability of GM corn could lead to disastrous consequences for farmers and the environment, Gassmann warned.
  
  “Unless management practices change, it’s only going to get worse,” he said. “There needs to be a fundamental change in how the technology is used.”
  
  The US authorized use of Bt toxin-producing corn back in 2003. Since then the GM plants, which were believed not to require implementation of insecticides to combat rootworms and other pests, has dominated the market and currently accounts for three-quarters of the American corn crop.
  
  However, the first cases of rootworm damage to GM plants were registered in 2009, with corn containing Cry3Bb1 Bt toxin being affected.
  
  Two years later, the bugs started attacking the fields, at which the second toxin – mCry3A – was used by the farmers.
  
  The lab tests performed by Gassmann and his team have revealed that a case of cross-resistance is in place as the pests that had become resistant to Cry3Bb1 were also resistant to mCry3A.
  
  The most likely explanation to the phenomenon is that both toxins share structural similarities and some binding sites in the insect’s gut, the paper said.
  
  According to the research, the Bt corn simply doesn’t produce enough toxin to fully control the rootworms, who are known as really tough creatures.
  
  Unlike the majority of other pests, which are almost completely defenseless against the toxins, over 2 percent of the rootworms can survive contact with Bt maize.
  
  Resistance in the worms can develop very fast in fields where the same kind of maize is being grown every year. In Iowa, it showed up after an average of 3.6 years, the paper warns.
  
  Agricultural biotechnology companies currently apply the so-called ‘pyramiding’ technology to their seeds so that they can produce two different Bt toxins, with one of them being Cry34/35Ab1 that so far has not seen any resistance developed by the rootworms.
  
  Gassmann confirmed that the pyramiding of toxins is an important way to delay the development of resistance, but added that the combination becomes less effective once resistance arises to one of the toxins.
  
  So, while relying on technology, the farmers shouldn’t forget about such old-fashioned practices as crops rotation as it helps disrupt the pests life cycle.
  
  “The rootworm can’t survive if the corn’s not there,” he explained.

  reply