Halving the surcharge

I do have a little trouble understanding Labour's proposal on halving the surcharge. If almost 30,000 low income families are already exempt from paying the surcharge on their water and electricity bills, how can the Labour Party tell us that this...

I do have a little trouble understanding Labour's proposal on halving the surcharge. If almost 30,000 low income families are already exempt from paying the surcharge on their water and electricity bills, how can the Labour Party tell us that this proposal is a fair one? Where is the social soul of the Malta Labour Party, a supposedly socialist party?

This proposal doesn't help the low income earner. It doesn't help Maltese industry be more competitive as Alfred Sant finally remembered to tell us that it does not apply to businesses. It doesn't help curb electricity wastage. Why is it being proposed?

And what happens if the price of oil keeps going up? Will it remain halved? Or will Dr Sant say that the situation has changed, maybe leaving the surcharge as it is and raising the rates?

Doesn't all this mean that in reality the halving of the electricity surcharge is just an electoral gimmick, in the same vein as the 1996 promise to remove VAT?

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