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29 October 2019
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has defended his method of handling the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s during his first tenure as Prime Minister.
Dr M: Bailing out tycoons during financial crisis was to minimise retrenchment, help country's economy
Tuesday, 29 Oct 20197:47 PM MYT
By JO TIMBUONG
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PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has defended his method of handling the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s during his first tenure as Prime Minister.
In his blog on Tuesday (Oct 29), the Pakatan Harapan chairman admitted to bailing out tycoons during the crisis as it was one of the best ways to minimise retrenchment and kept the country from falling even deeper into economic depression.
"Of course, it would have been better if we didn't help the tycoons and let their businesses plummet. "Then their employees would lose their jobs.
"Our exports would also fall and there will be no foreign funds flowing into the country," he said.
The Langkawi MP said not helping the tycoons at the height of the crisis between 1997 and 1998 would have had a further domino effect on the country's economy.
He said by not bailing out the tycoons, the government at the time risked losing revenue derived from corporate and income taxes, thus impacting government coffers.
"A big chunk of those taxes came from tycoons and losing them would have led to less government funds that would have affected the country's development and operations. We could not have built any sort of infrastructure," he said.
He also said not helping the tycoons would affect regular workers as they would have had been hit by higher tax rates to make up for lost revenue that came from the tycoons' corporate and income taxes.
"With lesser corporate and income taxes from the tycoons, we would have had to impose taxes on the non-tycoons that would only bring them down to poverty level," he said.
Dr Mahathir, who is well-known for being sardonic and witty,"apologised" for his method in handling the crisis and asked if there were other better ways to have managed it.
He explained that about 70 years ago, tycoons were murdered in several countries and had also had their properties seized by the government, which had hoped to profit from them.
"We could drive away all the tycoons and not help them at all. Let them go bankrupt and focus all our efforts on helping the non-tycoons.
"But how can we help the non-tycoons without revenue from the tycoons' corporate and income taxes? That is the question," he said.
It was unclear what led Dr Mahathir to revisit criticism of his handling of the crisis.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/10/29/dr-m-bailing-out-tycoons-during-financial-crisis-was-to-minimise-retrenchment-help-country039s-economy#IjygWfWBQwFmZbav.99
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KRISIS KEWANGAN 8
29 Oct 2019 | Economics
1. Saya mengaku saya terlibat dengan ciptaan pendekatan untuk mengatasi masalah kewangan pada 1997- 1998.
2. Ya, memang pun cara kita selesaikan krisis menolong taikun di Malaysia.
3. Memanglah baik jika kita tidak menolong taikun dan biarkan mereka dan perniagaan mereka rugi, gagal dan terpaksa ditutup.
4. Dengan ini semua kakitangan mereka (yang kaya dan tidak kaya) akan menganggur. Eksport kita akan menurun dan tidak akan ada pengaliran wang asing ke dalam negara kita.
5. Kerajaan pula akan hilang cukai korporat dan cukai pendapatan kerana sebahagian besar cukai dibayar oleh taikun. Sebahagian besar dari dana Kerajaan akan hilang. Operasi dan pembangunan negara tidak dapat diteruskan. Segala infrastruktur tidak dapat dibangunkan.
6. Dalam keadaan kehilangan cukai keatas taikun kitaterpaksa mengenakan cukai kepada yang bukan ditakrif sebagai taikun. Setelah membayar cukai oleh bukan taikun, mereka akan masuk dalam golongan mereka yang miskin.
7. Pada satu masa 70 tahun dahulu taikun dibunuh dan harta mereka dirampas di beberapa buah negara. Semua perniagaan dan perusahaan diambil oleh pemerintah dengan harapan 100% dari keuntungan akan diperolehi oleh Kerajaan.
8. Jika kita hendak kita boleh halau keluar semua taikun ini. Jangan tolong mereka. Biar mereka bankrap. Kita akan tolong yang bukan taikun sahaja.
9. Tetapi dengan apakah yang kita hendak tolong bukan taikun ini selepas semua taikun tidak dapat bayar cukai.
10. Itu soalannya?
11. Saya minta maaf kerana tindakan saya mengatasi krisis kewangan 1997-1998 menguntung taikun.
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