More social spending + low tax rates = highest surpluses (does not compute?)
How is it possible that we have the highest budget surpluses per capita in the world, with a very low tax rate and huge increases in social spending?
University fees up 7% p.a., surplus $1.4b, expenditure up 2%?
Is there really a need to increase university tuition fees every year, if the university has huge annual surpluses?
Unemployment rate: PRs & foreigners down, S’poreans unchanged?
Is the Singaporeans’ unemployment rate relatively worse off than that of PRs and foreigners?
HDB & private property prices moving in opposite direction?
Why is it that private property prices are going up, whilst HDB prices are still going down?
Citing “Population density” & “living density” together, makes no sense?
Saying and comparing “population density” and “living density” in one go at the same time is arguably, illogical?
Electricity competition: 24% cheaper – obscene profits for decades?
The opening up of electricity to competition has highlighted the humongous profits in the past?
Get more women to work to increase GDP: Better to increase pay?
Focus more on paying lower-income women more, rather than getting more women to work and longer hours?
HDB: “Living density” google cannot find?
Why is it that googling “living density” or “liveable density” yields no search results?
HDB reply: Can still monetise older flats?
We need to address the HDB “vanishing asset value” problem before it is too late for many Singaporeans?
Spending increased a lot, but you pay much more?
Have you ever wondered as to why despite the consistent rhetoric that we have been increasing spending by a lot and will spend even more, but you always end up paying a lot more also?