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Use GST money to fund free education for all

Ideally, especially during present times when families are faced with high cost of living conditions and living trends, the government should make education free for all citizens because  young working couples are finding it more difficult, as the days go by, to provide for their children as well for their elderly parents - or even themselves.

In fact, the government could have a budget to fund the project to make education free from primary school right through university using the goods and services tax (GST) money.

Do you know why young boys and girls are putting off marriage to a later day? You see, there are a number of reasons.

Obviously, one of the reasons is they have to have a stable (steady) job that pays a good salary or a business that brings home a fat income because today young couples cannot marry and start a family, literally speaking, by just drinking water alone as referred to 50 years ago, accordingly to an adage spoken in Cantonese, “yow ching yam swee pau”.

To feed a family with one child plus two elderly parents is expensive and frightful because young married couples today have many bills to take care of, such as payments for the house and car loans as well for utilities and insurance policy (policies), etc, etc.

Yes? It is no joke feeding five mouths, not unless both husband and wife are working.  However, the financial constraints will worsen whenever a new member joins the family.

So it is scary to see more old people in public places in one or two decades, if the government does nothing to provide free education for all children born of Malaysian parents.

For your information, the Singapore government has already come up with a package to help school-going children continue their education with monetary aids and subsidies.

The bottom line is, education is expensive and this is where our government should come in to make it a free for all Malaysian children.

Have they (the Malaysian government) allocated a cut on taxes collected from GST to be strictly used to provide free education for Malaysian children? In the Philippines the government there has already allocated a large amount from taxes collected from GST for free education.


LAU BING is a community activist and writer in Subang Jaya.

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