Activist-turned-lawmaker Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza reiterated Friday that there is no truth to accusations that she used her pork barrel to finance activities of the National Democratic Front (NDF).
There is a big chance that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s legacy of anti-people policies will continue if the Liberal Party wins the May 2010 elections, as it is now coddling the unpopular president’s “architects of poverty.”
THE proposal of Finance Secretary Margarito Teves for the next Congress to raise the value-added tax (VAT) rate from 12 percent to 15 percent drew strong opposition from militant legislators who said that instead of increasing it, the next government should set proper budget priorities and eradicate corruption.
