DESPITE various goodies announced under Budget 2022, several netizens took to social media to cast aspersions over it.
User Fuzly added:
Yesterday, Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz unveiled RM332.1 bil allocation under Budget 2020, the highest budget announced to date.
A massive RM233.5 bil was allocated for operating expenditure alone, RM75.6 bil allocated for development expenditure under Budget 2022.
Under the budget, the Education Ministry (RM52.6 bil) and Health Ministry (RM32.4 bil) received the highest allocations.
Tengku Zafrul also announced a renamed direct aid package called Bantuan Keluarga Malaysia worth RM8.2 bil, which will benefit over nine million people.
Touching on the matter, Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman decried the RM100 aid for teachers as the latter have used their pocket money to aid the home-based teaching and learning method (PdPR) programme during the pandemic.
(Education is important and teachers are its prime movers. For nearly two years, teachers have been teaching from home, using their own funds to purchase gadgets and pay for Internet and electric bills. RM100 is not enough and we need a long-term plan for digital learning)
M40 paying for T20
User KammoSiWong lamented that not much tax relief was provided to the struggling rakyat, apart from benefits from purchasing electronic gadgets.
User Ash remarked:
(M40 pays taxes to subsidise the T20 and B40. T20 can evade tax. They don’t pay anything but can go on holiday spree. Keluarga Malaysia, my foot!). – Oct 30, 2021
