The Two-Pot System is fascinating when you really think about it.
Government says you can’t freely access your retirement money because it must protect you from making bad financial decisions.
Fair enough. But if you’re financially desperate and withdraw the little they DO allow you to access, SARS immediately wants tax from it. So apparently you’re not responsible enough to decide what to do with your own retirement money… but you’re responsible enough to fund the state from it. Your money is protected from you, not from the taxman. That’s the part nobody talks about.
Mi parte favorita de la biblia es cuando Jesús, en vez de decirle a las mujeres como vestirse, le dice a los hombres que se arranquen sus ojos y corten las manos si no son capaces de controlarse