CNY 1st day: 4 “poor” news?
So many endemic issues as we start Chinese New Year!
Budget
Highest Budget surplus ever ($12b?): Increase taxes?
Highest Budget surplus ever ($12b?): Increase taxes?
Spend more – Raise taxes, but Revenues, Surpluses?
Need to increase taxes because need to spend more, but never tell you how much revenues and surpluses have increased, relative to expenditure?
Parliament: Tax – only ask how much “rich” pay, what about the poor?
Why only tell half the story – rich pay more, but what about the rest?
151st media makes my ’64th birth’ day”?
What a wonderful surprise birthday present when I woke up this morning at 64!
Raise taxes to increase spending: $31b Budget surpluses 1997-2016?
Is raising taxes inevitable, in order to increase spending?
U-Save: Households up 10%, electricity tariff up 17%, but rebates down 16%?
Is it odd that we got $226 million of rebate costs for 800,000 households in 2001, yet only $190 million for 880,000 in 2017?
Infrastructure spending is more than 150 times social welfare spending?
Should we reconsider spending more than 150 times more on infrastructure spending, than social welfare spending?
Fiscal policies: S’pore vs Hong Kong?
Is Singapore worse off than Hong Kong?
Trust how Govt use money: More transparency?
I refer to the article “Trust the Govt to be efficient with its use of money: Shanmugam” (Straits Times, Mar 5). It states that “As…