Government Imposed Tax

#This topic right belong to lecturer in UUM,

Isn't that free education, free public utilities means that government fully sponser it?
Once my lecturer in class discussed about this. Government says that they are providing free education, free publc utilities for the people, and they are quite proud about that. And also, I was believing to be so till today.

My lecturer argued, people are imposed with tax for everything, we are still paying school fee (quite a lot) and we are still paying for certain government hospital facilities.So, how come it is 'free' when we are paying for everything.

We are imagining a better Malaysia, whereas they are still those who could even get the reach of books.

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