Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed a bill into law prohibiting any government entity from requiring individuals to “obtain, maintain, present, or use digital identification.”
If you earn an average salary of R30,000 a month from age 18 to 65, you’ll pay roughly R2.64 million in PAYE over your lifetime.
That’s years of your life worked just to fund the state.
Here’s what that really means:
You will work about 7.3 years for free to fund one minister’s salary for a single year.
You will work about 2.9 years for free to pay for one minister’s car.
It takes about 5.3 South Africans working their entire lives to fund one minister’s 5-year term.
This is before VAT. Before fuel levies. Before everything else.
Every tax has a cost.
Not just in rands, but in years of your life.
CEO of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Lindsey Hooper, claims that water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. She proposes classifying them as assets and placing them on a global balance sheet.
“So, the stories about having to pay for a breath of air will soon no longer be gloomy jokes, but a very real prospect.”