Saturday, September 08, 2007

Yet Another farcicial attempt,only to humiliate the Tax Payers.....!

The war on middle-class seems to be never-ending, but getting intense as day progresses. Naturally,the winner is none other than those vote-bank politicians. The Govt. seems to be mulling over a proposal to hike prices of LPG for PAN card holders. While those who don't pay tax seem to reap in the benefits,the tax payers are penalised just for paying their taxes properly.
While tax payers are asked to cough up more for essential commodities like cooking gas,those who don't pay any tax get the most essential commodities like colour TV free of cost.

Isn't this humiliation more than enough for a tax payer?

While the high earners are smart enough to evade tax by making use of every possible way,ranging from illegal money laundering to the legal ways to evade tax such as investment in mutual funds,shares,bonds etc;The middle class is caught in a soup only because of its widespread ignorance towards those acts of deceit.While the tax payers make or break an economy;
Is this the treatment they deserve?
Is this the reward for contributing to the wellness of a society?
Is this the reward for lending support to build this country?

While I am not against the concept of building the nation from the grassroots level which involves empowering the poor,but rather why penalise innocent tax payers especially from the middle-class! Will these freebies empower the poor?
I don't find any link between empowering the poor and providing colour TV's for the poor.Rather We can arrive at a conclusion that the government has short term interests,only to garner more votes. And it is rather disturbing to know that poor people are considered as yet another vote,but not as a valuable human resource....

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