1. BRP eligibility at 60 years was an anomaly that had to be removed (2025). BRP is an important component of our welfare state which keeps 1/3 of Mauritians out of poverty. If you postpone the age people start getting it you will create a lot of poverty and hardship just like the 2012 HBS told us voodoo economics had and slow down the economy because a lot of these monies are used to buy essential things not villas 99% Mauritians cannot afford.
2. It's shocking to see that we spend 90 billion rupees in the budget on social security while spending only 20 billion on education and health each and about 10 billion in other sectors (2025). Our economy at the end of 2024 was 2.3X times smaller than what Sithanen said it would grow to when he introduced his ruinous 15% flat tax in 2006 so it's not a big surprise that several of our budget items are a lot smaller than they ought to have been. Granted the BRP increased a bit too quickly during the last 10 years but if the economy had grown as Sithanen said it would and we spent the same share of GDP as the Seychelles then we should have spent 3.3X on education what we've budgeted in FY25/26 (66 billion instead of 20 billion) and 4.6X on health or 92 billion.
