IT IS raining money for key sections of the electorate. After a please-all railway budget, which actually reduced air-conditioned first-class fares, and a general budget, which, among other lollipops, wrote off farm-sector loans to the tune of Rs600bil (RM47.9bil), it is now the turn of public servants to be offered a huge bonanza.
Central government employees are now set to get a 40% raise in salaries, causing an additional annual burden of nearly Rs130bil (RM10.4bil) on the exchequer.
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