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Jan 15, 2025 | 
businesslive.co.za | Donald MacKay
Much of our protection goes to large raw material monopolies (steel, glass) and no attention is paid to improving the competitiveness of the industries. I was in a meeting recently where a trade, industry & competition department official stated that she felt a 20%-25% price premium on locally procured product by the government was acceptable. It is not.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
freightnews.co.za | Donald MacKay
Not since senators Smoot and Hawley, has anyone loved tariffs more than Trump, even self-identifying as ‘Tariff Man’. Speaking at a roundtable with voters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the Republican presidential nominee said he thought “tariff” was “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”. “You have other words that are damn nice, like ‘love’,” Trump said, while others in the room laughed.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
freightnews.co.za | Donald MacKay
It is darkly ironic that US President-elect Donald Trump has enacted so many policies beloved of the far left. At a rally in New York on September 18, Trump announced: “While working Americans catch up, we’re going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates; we’re going to cap it at around 10 percent. We can’t let them make 25 and 30 percent.” Even Bernie Sanders finds himself to the right of Trump on this issue, having ‘only’ called for a cap of 15% in 2019.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
ukip.org | Ben Walker |Stuart Gulleford |Donald MacKay |Steve Unwin
“We can be in no doubt that 2 tier policing is rife in the UK today. Our police no longer serve the British public but bow down to the Muslim community : dealing differently with Islamic demos, incidents of crime and even riots. Before the Southport stabbings Leeds Police ran away from an angry Islamic mob and left the rioters to it; in contrast the treatment of peaceful demonstrators throughout the UK has been totally the opposite.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Donald MacKay
When SA’s electric steel producers (mini-mills) say the tax on scrap metal destined for export means local scrap is available and affordable and enables them “to create finished products in line with government policies to enhance local industrialisation and beneficiation”, it’s not clear how this happens (“Steel firms fight Amsa’s call to end scrap export tax,” October 30). The mini-mills are supported through two main mechanisms.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
ukip.org | Stuart Gulleford |Ben Walker |Donald MacKay |Steve Unwin
So, not only are we different from all the other mainstream political parties on policy - policy which is just about to become even more radical, we aren't politicians of the type the electorate have come to expect, even from the new kids on the block!Last week, UKIP's National Executive Committee resolved to really make its candidates and elected representatives stand out from the crowd.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Donald MacKay
As noted by Itac in the guidelines, the benefit of the rebate provision is tied to conditions related to economic performance over time and may be reviewed after a specified period. Reciprocity commitments as set out in the application form must be addressed in each application submitted. The applicant must commit to the creation of employment and provide in each permit the number of jobs they expect to create annually as a result of the rebate permit.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
ukip.org | Ben Walker |Donald MacKay |Steve Unwin |Antony Nailer
Jeffrey Titford 24.10.1933 – 09.09.2024Jeffrey Titford, the former Leader of the UK Independence Party and two term MEP for the East of England, has passed away, after suffering from cancer. His family announced his death on 10th September, aged 90. Jeffrey was one of the fathers of Brexit, coming to the fore in national and international politics at a time when leaving the EU was considered unthinkable and long before it became official Conservative Party policy.
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Sep 11, 2024 | ukip.org | Ben Walker |Donald MacKay |Steve Unwin |Antony Nailer
Jeffrey Titford 24.10.1933 – 09.09.2024Jeffrey Titford, the former Leader of the UK Independence Party and two term MEP for the East of England, has passed away, after suffering from cancer. His family announced his death on 10th September, aged 90. Jeffrey was one of the fathers of Brexit, coming to the fore in national and international politics at a time when leaving the EU was considered unthinkable and long before it became official Conservative Party policy.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Donald MacKay
When government support is permanent, problems arise. The beneficiary companies begin to budget for the support (prices are kept elevated because the duty is certain), and the consumer becomes habituated to the elevated prices. Because import duties don’t appear on the label of a product like VAT, few consumers understand how much duty is contained in the price they pay. Innovation levels in the sector drop because of less competition.
