OSTB: I received these two comments. My own comments in blue.
Comment 1. What the HELL..CAKAP LAIN...18 and above will get RM100..
THE explanation below proves otherwise....😡🤦🏻♀️🤮
Sebenarnya tujuan bagi RM100 kpd semua rakyat 18 tahun ke atas melalui my kad, ialah untuk menguji berapa ramai orang bukan golongan miskin yang akan ambil. Pemberian bukan cash tapi kredit melalui Mydin, Aeon supermarket etc- tempat shopping golongan berpendapatan rendah. Orang kaya Beli barangan dapur di JayaGrocer atau Village Grocer.
OSTB: An interesting comment tapi saya tak setuju semuanya. First of all Mydin, Aeon supermarket etc - bukan tempat shopping golongan rendah saja. Orang berpendapatan tinggi pun shopping di Aeon dan Mydin. Serupa juga orang yang shopping di 99 Speedmart bukan semuanya berpendapatan rendah.
Orang akan shopping jika lokasi kedai/supermarket adalah dekat dan mudah parking, especially parking percuma. Di Beranang (dekat kawasan saya) Jaya Grocer popular sebab mudah parking, parking free dan di lokasi itu tidak ada supermarket lain. Saya lihat golongan berpendapatan sederhana pun shopping di Jaya Grocer.
Comment 2. *A flat spray of RM100s*
The government gave everyone RM100.
A retired couple in a quiet bungalow with three adult children gets RM500.
A struggling young couple with no children gets RM200.
A low-income family with five small kids gets RM200 too.
As long as you are Malaysian and above 18, you qualify. That is the system.
No income test. No asset threshold. No need to apply. Just the chip in your MyKad, and a system ready in 4,000+ participating kedai.
Look carefully. Fairness is not the central feature.
A household with more adult ICs gets more.
A household with more needs, but younger children, does not.
A man who owns three properties gets more than a woman who rents a flat with her teenage son.
No one is being cheated. The government has said it plainly: this is appreciation, not redistribution.
There is no surplus.
The same month this RM100 was announced, public complaints rose about new SST burdens, pricier diesel, higher electricity bills, blah blah blah.
The same government that asked everyone to tighten belts is now offering a token not to the poorest but to all.
To the high-income earner, it feels like an unnecessary gesture.
To the low-income earner, it feels like too little.
To the middle-income, it feels like a reminder that the system sees them, but doesn’t understand them.
It is a spray.
OSTB: That is because this is another GIMMICK. Yes this is very correct. An orang kaya couple living in a bungalow with a swimming pool with two grown up children will get RM400, double the amount a poor income family with five school going children will get.
The distribution discriminates by age, not by needs.It is a poorly thought gimmick.
