Misplaced focus in critiquing Budget 2013 subsidies

comments     Lim Teck Ghee     Published     Updated

COMMENT In their joint statement released on Sept 28, the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) and not-for-profit research institute Research for Social Advancement (Refsa) drew attention to the “shocking federal government subsidy bill for 2012”.

According to them, this is now expected to hit RM42 billion, a massive RM9 billion or 27 percent above the RM33 billion originally forecast for the year.

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