We are where we are and can only go forward now that #CurrencyChange is ‘on ground’, but we can’t ignore the reality of the election-linked timing.
Is the policy’s aim to stop #VoteBuying & #VoteSelling? Or is it to mop up excess liquidity, correct course or achieve some …/2
Is the policy’s aim to stop #VoteBuying & #VoteSelling? Or is it to mop up excess liquidity, correct course or achieve some …/2
… other monetary or fiscal goal?
Yes, #VoteBuying & #VoteSelling are wrong and criminal, but must the nation’s whole policy be altered to suppress what law enforcement should be able to deal with, just because ordinary people (rather than delegates & legislators) are getting…/3
Yes, #VoteBuying & #VoteSelling are wrong and criminal, but must the nation’s whole policy be altered to suppress what law enforcement should be able to deal with, just because ordinary people (rather than delegates & legislators) are getting…/3
… a piece of the action? After all, if the person selling notes at a social event can get new notes, we should not delude ourselves that a politician who wants to do analogue #VoteBuying can’t lay their hands on them too.
But if the aim of the policy is monetary, that could …/4
But if the aim of the policy is monetary, that could …/4
… have been done after the elections or a longer time could have been given.
It is true that the policy was announced in October, but the new currency was not made available until December, and right from then up till now, it was scarce.
All that said, we can only go forward now
It is true that the policy was announced in October, but the new currency was not made available until December, and right from then up till now, it was scarce.
All that said, we can only go forward now
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