Blaming the voter base without understanding why they voted the way they did is arrogant and presumptuous.
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Blaming the voter base without understanding why they voted the way they did is arrogant and presumptuous.
This is my third argument on why a depreciating Ringgit is sub-optimal for the Malaysian economy.
have we – our leaders and ourselves – become complacent as we reaped the rewards of Malaysia’s remarkable development over the past 58 years?
The federal government should consider the issue of geographic differentiation of policies, particularly in cases where different geographic locations have vastly different attributes.
if we are to be consistent in our principles behind supporting Uber, we must acknowledge as well that those same principles apply to illegal immigrants in Malaysia.
The reason that the election manifestos are so far apart is not because the Median Voter Theorem does not hold but rather, it is because there is incomplete information and different presumptions by both parties as to “who” exactly the Malaysian Median Voter is.
This note does not seek to critique our Ministers’ views of the homeless but rather to evaluate the economic rationale on homelessness and the ban on soup kitchens.
I believe there is another way that is largely untried in civil society in Malaysia. It is not a direct form of engagement but I think, in the long run, it will be the most successful.
We certainly prefer our doctors to update their priors based on new medical evidence, why should we not prefer that of our politicians as well?
it might alter behavior, it might be more politically supportable and it might better target those who need the handouts. As is common in most policy debates, the answer is, “Not so fast.”
The most common argument against the GST is that it is a regressive tax and so, will harm the low-income more than the middle-income more than the high-income. I think this argument is incredibly naïve.
The 13th General Elections is a wathershed of sorts as elections tend to be, and we would like to share some common views of how we move forward from here.