DAP 2017 Christmas Day Message By DAP Secretary-General And MP For Bagan Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 24.12.2017.
As we welcome Christmas, Christians seek forgiveness as well as to forgive those who wronged them, in the spirit of Jesus Christ who redeemed our sins. However Malaysians can neither forget nor forgive those responsible for making our country a kleptocracy and corruption such as the 1MDB financial scandal that gave birth to the GST, that caused untold economic hardships to ordinary Malaysians.
Malaysians can only wash away the stain of 1MDB by abolishing GST, to force full accountability of this scandal to get back the tens of billions of ringgit stolen. As long as the GST is present, there is a lack of motivation to punish those responsible, because the Federal government will not be hard pressed for money. With RM40 billion in annual GST taxes collected, the Federal government can easily ignore and cover-up the 1MDB scandal.
Penang and Selangor have proven that the people can benefit financially even though these two states do not have GST. Clearly running a clean and corrupt-free government works and the people in those two states have received direct cash benefits of more than RM1 billion in only 9 years, that was not available to them under BN rule.
So long as the government does not steal the people’s money, the government can earn money to benefit the people in the form of a “anti-corruption dividend”. Using this proven corrupt-free model, a future Pakatan Harapan Federal government can afford to pay BR1M as usual even after abolishing the GST.
Let us unite together to overcome and resolve our economic problems regardless of race, religion and background. Let us pray for peace and unity by standing together against those who have stolen our future and more importantly, preventing them from stealing our children’s future.
LIM GUAN ENG
民主行动党秘书长兼峇眼区国会议员林冠英于2017年12月24日在吉隆坡发表行动党2017年圣诞节献辞：
马来西亚人既不能忘记也不会原谅那些令我国陷入盗贼统治以及贪污腐败之境的始作俑者，一如1MDB金融丑闻，就是因为它，所以催生了消费税，从此让平民百姓过着水深火热的生活。
今天，我们迎来了一年一度的圣诞节，在这一天，本着耶稣为人们赎罪的精神，基督徒都会寻求宽恕与被宽恕，并原谅那些曾经伤害他们的人。即便如此，马来西亚人却不能忘记也不会原谅那些令我国陷入盗贼统治以及贪污腐败之境的始作俑者，一如1MDB金融丑闻，就是因为它，所以催生了消费税，从此让平民百姓过着水深火热的生活。
马来西亚人要消除1MDB留下的污点，唯一的方法就是取消消费税，并对有关丑闻进行全面追究，讨回被窃盗的百亿令吉。只要消费税还存在的一天，那些始作俑者就不会受到被惩罚，因为联邦政府将不会为了找钱补洞而苦苦挣扎。不要忘记，联邦政府一年取得的消费税多达400亿令吉，有了这笔钱，他们将可轻易忽视并掩盖1MDB的丑闻。
槟州及雪州这两个州属已经证明，就算没有消费税，人民还是可以照样受惠。明显的，在一个廉洁及不贪污的政府治理下，人民将能够过得更好。过去9年来，两州人民从政府手上总共领取了超过10亿令吉的现金，而这些优惠，是在国阵治理之地所不能享有的。
只要政府不盗窃人民的财富，政府就能通过“反腐败分红”的方式赚钱造福人民。以此模式，即使在取消消费税后，未来的希望联盟联邦政府也可以像往常一样支付BR1M的援助金。
让我们联合起来，不分种族、宗教和背景，共同克服和解决我们的经济问题。也让我们一起祈求和平与团结，对抗那些偷走我们未来的人，更重要的是，我们要阻止他们偷走我们下一代的未来。
林冠英