Tax mining companies, not people

FOREIGN mining companies in PNG earn US$500 million and do not have to pay taxes.
Yet, Papua New Gui­nean workers are paying almost as high as 40% wage taxes each fortnight.
Why are we ripping ourselves off?
Our government’s tax priorities are all wrong.
If this government is really for the people, then please give us a meaningful tax break and let us take home more from our own hard-earned pay.
It seems we are paying for the sealing of roads and other infrastructures while foreign companies such as Newcrest, extract tonnes of our resources without paying taxes.
They have not even sealed the Lihir’s Kunaye Airport or the Londolovit town roads.
These companies and their executives do not need any more encou­ragement to make money.
We give them such enormous tax breaks in the name of encouraging foreign investment.
But what is the point of having them here if, when they leave, roads remain  unsealed and we have no schools, hospitals or businesses to run afterwards?
Tax the miners, not the PNG people.

Totally Taxed Out Lihir Island