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the Administration to come together with the Joint Council on Salaries and Fringe Benefits in Subvented Organisations, formed in January this year, to examine major areas of differences in fringe benefits which
deserving. serve to boost the morale of these serving subvented organisations' staff. Thirdly, the Lotteries Fund's allocation should be augmented from 3.5 per cent to 10 per cent of the lotteries' proceeds, with half of this sum being placed in a revolving fund designated
for the improvement of social welfare services. This will do justice to the objectives of the fund and the many worthwhile capital projects awaiting financial sup-
the port: I Last, but not least, tax concessions should be
not made for home buyers in the sizeable sandwich class, who neither have the Financial Secretary's blessings nor enjoy many of the social welfare provisions designated for those least able to help themselves.<
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19 In making reforms in taxation, consideration ought to be given to the equitable distribution of income needed to upgrade Hong Kong people's quality of life, but
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definitely not to introduce any form of sales tax to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
NP 25 (sir, in the final analysis, social development is a
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product that cannot be measured by the standard cost- effective analysis. Social development is, however, the milestone of a forward-looking, progressive society that
we are all here to serve.
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With these remarks, Sir, I support the motion.
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