Sebentar tadi Ahli Parlimen Sandakan telah bercakap mengenai ekonomi negara kononnya semakin lemah.
Bangunan kedai atau premis perniagaan semakin kosong tiada peniaga. Beliau juga mahu gst dihapuskan dan kerajaan memulangkan subsidi minyak dan barang keperluan harian seperti dahulu.
Dia juga menyalahkan perdana menteri kerana gagal mengawal kenaikan harga barang terutama di Sandakan.
Ini lah yang dikatakan bangang teramat bangang. GST sudah banyak kali disebut dalam dewan rakyat tetapi majoriti pembangkang masih bengap.
Kenaikan harga barang bukan lah disebabkan oleh gst tetapi sikap peniaga yang sengaja menaikkan harga barang walaupun cukai GST hanya 6% berbanding SST yang lebih tinggi antara 10 hingga 16 peratus.
Subsidi minyak petrol dan diesel di Sabah dan Sarawak sememangnya lebih murah dari semenanjung. Seandainya subsidi minyak di kembali ia akan menguntungkan golongan kaya bukan golongan berpendapatan rendah.
Ini lah agenda pembangkang terutamanya Dap untuk menipu rakyat menjelang PRU yang akan tiba tak lama lagi.
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As we approach the General Elections, there will be many more ceramahs and stories from so-called "independent" media about slow sales at shopping malls and retail outlets or that certain outlets are closing in an attempt to paint a picture that Malaysia's economy is bad.
This is like how the opposition uses the closure of some bank branches due to a shift by many to online banking to mislead Malaysians to believe our banks are closing down - despite our banks making record profits.
(you should ask yourself how many times have you queued up at a physical bank branch in recent years?)
On the contrary, domestic spending - or how much Malaysians spend within the country - increase 7.1% (in Q2 2017 and 6.6%.
However, retail sales is forecast to grow only 3.7% in 2017.
This is because there is a global shift in world-wide patterns where online shopping and purchase of services instead of growth has shifted the way that Malaysians spend their money. Malaysians increasingly buy more online and have more place to shop - thus diluting the traffic to the same malls.
It is no longer all focused on the retail outlets.
Coupled with over-building of shopping malls especially in the Klang Valley, certain shopping malls is already or will come under stress which will eventually result in some closures - the same pattern that you see around the world.
This is nothing to do with Malaysia's economy being bad or Malaysia going bankrupt.
It is a global trend - so don't be cheated by the propaganda.
Eric See-To.
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SEP 8, 2016 : Five years from now, one-third of China's shopping malls will be out of business, report says
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/09/08/one_third_shopping_malls_gone.php
JUN1, 2017: Up to 25% of U.S. shopping malls may close in the next five years, report says
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-malls-closing-20170531-story.html
Oct 23, 2017: Singapore Malls' Amazonian Emptiness
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-10-23/singapore-malls-are-primed-for-amazon-s-click-de-grace
