SA Politics can be really racist

BlushingMama · August 2011

I was just reading SA news and they are discussing that they want to introduce 'White Tax'. If you are white and you are wealthy then you will need to pay a certain percentage of your wealth in tax. REALLY? Why can't it just be wealthy tax? No matter what colour you are, you pay tax on your wealth? Why must it be if you are white? This really annoys me.

(Just as a side note, I don't believe that the wealthy should be penalised just because they are wealthy either)

MrsBini10 · August 2011

Interesting. Are there many/any non-white wealthy people there? If someone is of mixed race and wealthy would they pay...half the tax or something? It just seems logistically impractical in addition to being racist.

BlushingMama · August 2011

There are a fair amount of wealthy non-whites in SA. My theory is that half of them are politicians so they don't want to tax themselves unnecessarily. Yeah, I am not sure about the coloured people (thats a race in SA (mixed race), not a racist word - you get whites, africans/blacks, coloureds, indians, etc), they will probably get the short end of the stick again.

titicole · August 2011

Wait a minute I thought like only 6% percent of the population pay tax anyway. And all the rest do not. I should look this up, but I am lazy.

BlushingMama · August 2011

I hope that more than 6% of the population pay tax. I was earning a pathetic salary there years ago (it was above minimum wage), but I think my salary was around R36000 (around ?3200) a year and I paid tax on that. At that time if you earned under R21600 (around ?1950) then you never had to pay tax, if I remember correctly.

ebartzen · August 2011

Apparently it will be a tax on anyone who got rich pre-1994, which would essentially be only white people.

I don't think this is a good idea. It will just shake up an already delicate situation.

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