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The European Union ordered that in 2011 the Maltese and Gozitan people pay it €68,000,000

€186,000 daily stolen from your childrens mouths

Mistaken decision

The Campaign for National Independence (CNI) is of the opinion that the Government ridiculed itself on the hearses issue.

The transport of dead persons business is not going to increase by increasing the number of hearses.

CNI insists that if the Government wants the people to pay less for the transport of the dead, all it had to do is that as a regulator, decrease the present prices.

Or, to give proof how much it wants the people to pay the least amount possible for funeral services, the Government ought to have removed the VAT from the funeral expenses.

But instead of reducing the fee for hearses and removed VAT from funeral expenses, the Government chose to obey the European Union’s orders to liberalize the transport, and started from the dead, instead of the transport of the living.

In the opinion of the CNI the Government changed the liberalization issue into a circus, by boasting that for the good of the country, with it, it was going to destroy the hearses monopoly.

To the media and to the public the Prime Minister and the Minister for Transport wanted them to believe the fib that much good will result with an increase in the number of hearses.

The country will not benefit

It is not true that the country will benefit from a greater number of hearses.

For many reasons it would be better that the number of hearses is not increased, once it can benefit the people by simply reducing the fares.

It is not in the interest of the country for big money to leave the country in order to buy hearses, when there is a number of hearses in the country which are more than enough for the demand of transporting dead persons.

The thousands spent in buying excess hearses should be spent of useful projects that profit our country, not given to foreign hearses manufacturers.

Economic efficiency teaches that if the transport of the dead can be carried out decently and efficiently with a capital investment for ten hearses, you will be mistaken if you spend a greater amount of capital to buy ten more hearses.

Irresponsible decision

CNI feels that a responsible and serious government does not encourage an excess spending of capital outside the country, as is going to happen with the buying of hearses from outside the country, once the country already has more than enough hearses.

The Government, instead of discouraging the buying of more hearses, encouraged it by subsidizing them by thousands from the people’s taxes: €230,000.

A senseless and irresponsible decision, because if the people are going to pay less fares, what they are going to pay less they are going to pay from the taxes which are going for the subsidy.

The Government is insisting that the fares will decrease with the increase in the number of hearses.

According to the CNI, however, if there is occasion for the fares to decrease, it is not due to the number of dead carried because their number is not going to increase.

If one takes the example that today there is a daily demand for six hearses, and that the payment is €100 for each hearse, to total weekly income from hearses is €4,200.

If today there are ten hearses, every hearse per capita income is €420 per week.

Now if the number of hearses is doubled, and the fare is reduced to €80 per hearse, the weekly income from 20 hearses will be €3,360, which means a weekly income per hearse of €168.

This means that a hearse owner who today has a weekly income of €420, will have a lower income of €158 per week. A reduction in income that one cannot expect.

On the other hand, if the number f hearses remains ten as it presently is, and the Government fixed the fare at €70 per hearse instead of the present 100, the total weekly income will be €2,940, which means a weekly income of €294 per week per hearse.

This example shows that if the present number of hearses is kept, and the Government reduces the fare to €70 per hearse, it will be much better for the public, and much more just for the hearse owners than doubling the present number of hearses and the income is reduced to €80 per hearse.

CNI insists that damage not good shall be done to the country, whenever the European Union policy on liberalization of everything is applied, without taking into consideration if that policy is suitable in a particular sector for the circumstances and the small market of our country.

With respect to hearses, the liberalization policy is totally wrong both economically and socially.

The Maltese and Gozitan people will be better served if the Government – as a regulator - reduces the fares and goes against what the European Union wants, by removing VAT from funerals.

Wednesday 23 July 2008.

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