Don Blakazini

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[Don Blakazini @BlakSquire]

Jay is Frank Lopez, Ye is Tony.

[Don Blakazini @BlakSquire]

DWEKS EEEEEEEEEH 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 @LekhetheloaLes

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Shakhtar Donetsk manager when he arrives at Stamford Bridge and sees Xabi Alonso in the manager’s office

[elsa @callmeMaharani]

your ex is out there repeating your philosophies to some new person who now thinks they're deep.

[Don Blakazini @BlakSquire]

I saw Nas do illmatic in Centurion. What a facan wow.

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

What’s an album where the artist could play a concert of just that album, no skips, and you would leave satisfied?

[Don Blakazini @BlakSquire]

@SpursOfficial Khot.

[Troller Coaster @TCoaster_HQ]

Me at midnight while my mates were preparing to go to work:

[takuyana @T1003]

子供達がWorld is yoursやってる映像、ヤバいな

[Kay💧 @Kaypoisson1]

Argentina players: So Coach what do we do in the second half?

Scaloni in the dressing room:

[Khangisa (Prof. ) @Siyakhangisa]

48%.

That is the effective tax burden on someone earning R30,000 a month in South Africa. Same rate as someone earning R432,000 a month in a top European country.

The numbers sound wrong. They are not.

​​Where the 48% comes from.​​

PAYE is what people see on the payslip. It is not the whole picture.

VAT - 15% on almost everything. Every swipe. Every fill-up. Most people do not think of VAT as a tax. It is the largest single source of government revenue after income tax.

Fuel levy - built into every litre. Petrol at R26.92 inland includes roughly R3.80 in fuel levy and Road Accident Fund levy. That is a tax on getting to work.

Then there are the charges that look like fees but function like taxes. E-tolls. Municipal surcharges. Electricity tariffs with embedded levies.

Add the visible and the invisible - you get 48%.

​​The key difference with Europe.​​

In the Netherlands. In Denmark. In Germany. High taxes come with a social contract.

Free tertiary education. Universal healthcare that does not require medical aid. Childcare subsidies. Paid parental leave that covers an actual year. Robust unemployment support.

You pay 45%. And you get services back.

In South Africa you pay 48%. And then you pay again - privately.

Medical aid because public healthcare is collapsed. Security because policing is broken. Private schools because public education cannot be trusted. Solar panels or a generator because Eskom cannot guarantee power. Water tanks because the municipality cannot guarantee supply.

The middle-class earner pays twice. Once in tax. Once in escape.

​​Who actually pays.​​

There are about 8.3 million personal income taxpayers in South Africa. A relatively small slice of the population. The top earners supply most of the revenue.

Corporations optimise. The wealthy structure. Offshore trusts. Semigration. Emigration. The R30,000 earner cannot escape - it comes out before they see the money.

The base is narrow. The burden is concentrated. The services are not.

​​Why it accumulated this way.​​

No one designed this system. It grew.

Income tax funds the general budget. VAT funds the general budget. Fuel levy funds roads and the general budget. Each mechanism made sense when it was introduced. Each one expanded quietly.

Raising income tax visibly upsets people. Raising VAT is less visible - it is embedded in the price. Raising fuel levy is buried in the pump price. Municipal charges are non-negotiable.

The objective was not fairness to the middle class. It was revenue extraction with minimum political friction.

​​The uncomfortable part.​​

This is not a policy failure. It is a policy success. The system extracts efficiently. It offends quietly. And the people who carry it do not have the means to opt out.

The question is not whether 48% is too high.

It is how long the R30,000 earner can pay twice - once in tax and once in escape - before something breaks.

[Johnny Cortes @johnnycortes]

"Faces of football” until the clip loads
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[The Spurs Web @thespursweb]

Tottenham negotiating the £50m for Omar Marmoush with Man City

[Don Blakazini @BlakSquire]

Smh. Re etsoa bana mona.

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

5 points from playing Hull, Everton, Fulham, Ipswich & 10 man Man City

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

IBM, 1979. We’re regressing at a rapid pace.

[Ron @Ronhotspur]

Tottenham Hotspur are in 20th place

[- @MusialaEra]

Harry Kane is Bayern‘s greatest striker since Gerd Müller. Tottenham fans were right all along

[Matty Dread @MattyDread]

I could watch this all day on loop. BBC net zero moron getting owned by Guyana president.

[Miss Kawhi👑 @HKuriah]

“He makes me lie down in green pastures."

[Sammy Primus | Social Media & Paid Marketing @sammyprimus1]

Can PGMOL explain to me how this was not a Penalty?