#3 Y'see, this is why it's bad when the government already has all the productive resources in a country. When the state has no need to tax, sitting fat and happy on a vast lake of oil reserves, it has no need for a legislature to vote tax bills. No goddamn need at all, and when the state's pet assembly starts thinking it's got some sort of, y'know, mandate - well, just flush it down the toilet and go find some other hobby to keep its monstrous self amused. Maybe an ant farm.
It's no coincidence that the two Arab states with institutions most nearly resembling actual functional legislatures - Morocco and Jordan - are resource-poor, oil-less wonders.
Don't pester me with Egypt's big, fat counter-example. The absence of oil isn't a guarantee - just a initial requirement. |
Legislators harmed their relations with the executive when they called a vote of no confidence in the health minister, Kuwait's prime minister said yesterday, in a comment seen as a warning that parliament might be dissolved. "We express our discomfort with the way the no-confidence motion was tabled," the Prime Minister, Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, said in a statement read out on state television. The prime minister did not reveal his intentions in the statement, but he said the no confidence vote was "damaging" to cooperation between the legislative and executive branches of government. It showed "negative indications that harm our national unity," he added.