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local-orientated package, thereby not
only encouraging more local people to
join Government Service, but also
ensuring as much as possible that
their children will also study and
work in Hong Kong. This requires some long-term planning and I therefore
suggest the setting up of a fommission
to study this matter.
Look
Sir, may I now turn to the question of
now!
sales tax. Numerous. hone mem-
bers have spoken against the introduct-
ion of a sales tax, and have given many
good reasons in support of their argu-
ment that such a tax should not be
introduced now. I agree with them.
But as I understand the Financial
Secretary, he is not actually prop-
osing to introduce such a tax this
year, or even in the near foreseeable
future. Indeed, his last words on
this particular topic were 'There is, therefore, much more to be done before I am able to present any proposals
for public debate.' [of course, the Financial Secretary and his pepartment
can continue with their researches
even without telling us about it. but I suppose the Financial Secretary believes in open government, and therefore has decided to give us the benefit of some
of his present thoughts, although in
his own words; 'our researches are far
from complete.*
Sir, it is evident that the imposition
of any sales tax will hurt the poor much
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