GST to be raised to 7%
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I know what he is trying to do. He is pushing all the poor to the corner. Then one by one will jump down the MRT tracks. Then left who?? The elites!!!
Singapore will then become an elites country..Thats his plan..
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Taken from talkingcock.com
Ministers to Get Pay Rise to Help Lower Income Groups
Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006
Topic: Politics
Politics
by K.K. Cheow
Besides raising GST, SingaporeÂ’s Ministers intend to raise their own pay in order to help lower income Singaporeans.
“The country needs more money for social measures like education, housing and health care for peasa… I mean, lower income workers,” said Ministry of Elitism spokesman Louie Chin Ooh Lui. “So if Ministers get more pay, then we will be able to spend more money in the economy, and that will trickle down to help the peasa… sorry, sorry, lower income workers.”
Mr. Chin said that the Ministerial pay rise would contribute to all sectors of the economy. “For example, it will definitely benefit the airline industry as Ministers will now have more money to afford an overseas education for their kids, and their families will definitely travel more to visit them. They will also buy more luxury cars, which will benefit the automotive sector, and also the chauffeur industry. By traveling more in cars, they will also contribute more ERP charges, thus benefiting the country’s land transport policies. They will also take up more country club memberships, thus providing more employment opportunities for peasa… you know who I mean. If Ministers get paid more, every Singaporean benefits.”
In other news, many Singaporeans agree with PM LeeÂ’s characterization of the government as 'high quality but cheap' despite Singaporean Ministers having the highest salaries of any government in the world.
Said Bukit Buttocks resident, Kiam Siap Kui, “Look at how much money they give us back in exchange for supporting their million dollar lifestyles. Of course they’re cheap, lah!”
In completely unrelated news, TalkingCock.com believes that the current crop of sceptical analyses in the States Times about the changes proposed by the newly Democratic US Congress has absolutely nothing to do with President Bush's impending visit to Singapore this week. Really. Uh-huh. Swear. Guarantee plus chop plus two year warranty. -
cb, 4d winning prize will be affected again!!
not that i have won any.....
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the 4D prize how much now after it becomes 7% GST?
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If everyone will be elite, then there will be no elite. There must exist commoners so people like LHL and the MPs can say get out of my elite uncaring face.Originally posted by sans-culotte:I know what he is trying to do. He is pushing all the poor to the corner. Then one by one will jump down the MRT tracks. Then left who?? The elites!!!
Singapore will then become an elites country..Thats his plan.. -
Feel sad for poor Sgrean, work so hard yet not being rewarded.
FT and elites benefit from all the hike and take the credit, and they can leave anytime in future if they find here nolonger the best place to stay. -
maybe they need the money to cover the investment losses.
ccb!!!! -
It's always said and bullsh|t. 1st they'll tell you that Singapore should stand as ONE...Originally posted by saline:GST to be raised to 7%: PM Lee
By Lee Foong Ming, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 13 November 2006 1832 hrs
SINGAPORE: The Goods and Services Tax will be increased to 7 percent, up from 5 percent presently - this was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Parliament on Monday.
Mr Lee said more details will be given in next year's Budget Speech which has been scheduled for 15 February.
The Prime Minister made the announcement when responding to the issues raised by MPs over 4 days of debate - among them the widening income gap in Singapore as a result of globalisation.
Stressing that globalisation is here to stay, and Singaporeans will have to deal with its impact, Mr Lee said this is something that could strain the country's social compact, and this is why it is essential that there will be a whole set of measures to tilt playing field in favour of lower income group.
Adding that the GST increase will help finance enhanced social safety nets to help this group, Mr Lee said it was better to raise the GST when the economy is doing well. - CNA /dt
KNN!!!!
THEN they'll tell you that Singaporeans should learn to be more INDEPENDENT...
BASICALLY, I just see it as they'll SHAPE Singapore into however that would not stop the $$$ from rolling into their pockets... And Singaporeans would just have to cope with the problems themselves...
It's always the same bullsh|t... I remember the election before the last one, they also said wanna help Singaporeans with their jobless problems and focus more on that than the election itself... Then AFTER the election BECOMES "Singaporeans should upgrade and help themselves find jobs..."
Whatever 'promises' they're making to us are just BASED on SURVEYS conducted on what SINGAPOREANS WISH FOR.... And now they're just giving ANOTHER BULLSH|T... Building on our DREAMS (new carrots to be dangled?) and seemingly to 'offer' what we want also really the SINCERITY and INTENTION of DOING SO! -
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tourist can claim back gstOriginally posted by gerrykoh:GST increase is also bad for the economy- most tourists will go to HK, M'sia, Thailand where things are cheaper.
The middle class will get poorer.
The rich won't be affected due to recent cuts in their income tax.
Expect everything will go up- your sch. fees, PUB, petrol, food, tel. bills etc
Blame the stupid 66.6% who voted for Pay & Pay! -
Tell u la.. Singapore Gahmen is full of Bullcrap. Ultimately and bottomline, MONEY. Talk about what promises and benifits, suck my cock la. Drive big car, landed property and children mostly are overseas graduate. $ come from us. If for the past few GE we never elect them, you think they can live in Singapore so SONG. Everytime mouth sweet till like honey, plan their wayang like as if we cant see through them.
today New Paper, SG got BILLIONS of bucks in bank. Knn.. not because of us, you think they can save so much meh. Credit all goes to us, the people who work hard to pump money into SG. We work so hard partly is for tax here n there.
Not as if people in SG is becoming richer or what shit. They say raise tax for the poor and old in future. Then why not lower the tax or think of better way out so people can afford. Instead of everytime use the same method of sucking people's hard earn $.
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It's precisely this rich FTs they wanna attract, so lower income tax make it more attractive for them to come. So this rich FT come and generate dollars and cents for the economy which will slowly trickle downwards to the middle and lower income. My JC economics only until this level, someone with Econ or Commerce degree, some pointers please.
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Remember to put on your knee breaches. Anyway, jumping on the MRT track is far from the sans-culotte way.Originally posted by sans-culotte:I know what he is trying to do. He is pushing all the poor to the corner. Then one by one will jump down the MRT tracks. Then left who?? The elites!!!
Singapore will then become an elites country..Thats his plan.. 
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Many ppl gonna suffered in this sillypore.
Down the GST!! Down the Elite!! -
They want to lower corperate tax to get more investments ma. They just wan to smoke us by saying raise GST to help lower income.
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4 Millions Smiles.......? GST 7% still can smile? Pui
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just record what stunt they give us lor.. till the next GE..
Progress package. Nth is free in this world. -
On the contrary, tourist do pay GST.Originally posted by Chelzea:tourist can claim back gst
If a tourist buys something from a non-GST registered business,
he would have paid some GST on the goods (even if the receipt don't
state the GST tax). It's because these non-GST registered business
purchase goods from GST registered suppliers, the suppliers would
have already charge GST on the goods, then the GST on the goods
is passed on to the consumer, in this case the tourist.
The only relief is that the tourist doesn't pay the final value added tax
charged by the non-GST registered business. (e.g. if non-GST business
purchase product (cost $100 from GST registered business) for $105,
sells it for $155, non-GST business can't charge GST for the $155,
but tourist has already paid $5 of hidden GST.) -
Next election I confirm won't vote for them liao.
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They never distort, they GARBLE the message. For those who uses maths to understand English: distort =/= ("!=", this one is for programmers) garble.Originally posted by ObiterDicta:I don't think the local media distorted his message, since one gets pretty much the same impression from watching the Taiwanese news on cable TV.
obiterdicta
Li Ao was comparing the people in some major cities. He said HKers are craftier then he said Singaporeans are stupid because they just whine when some unfair things happen to them but still choose the whinging path.
Then our Gahmen Mouth just report this, "Li Ao say Singaporeans are stupid."
Did they distort Li Ao's message? No. Li Ao indeed said Singaporeans are stupid.
Did they give our citizens the full message? No. That is what we call garble. -
Originally posted by Hogzilla:
nice one +1
They never [b]distort, they GARBLE the message. For those who uses maths to understand English: distort =/= ("!=", this one is for programmers) garble.
Li Ao was comparing the people in some major cities. He said HKers are craftier then he said Singaporeans are stupid because they just whine when some unfair things happen to them but still choose the whinging path.
Then our Gahmen Mouth just report this, "Li Ao say Singaporeans are stupid."
Did they distort Li Ao's message? No. Li Ao indeed said Singaporeans are stupid.
Did they give our citizens the full message? No. That is what we call garble.[/b] -
i not going vote for PAP once i reached 21
The goverment only wan money $_$
if 4.5m singaporean buy 1 7%
Gst good goverment earn like !@#%%^ -
why do they want to increase the gst now?
do we have a trade deficit?
are they short of money?
we have more than 100 billion of reserves!!!
why??? -
Can we do a petition like setting up a meeting point for the public to sign on the petition book and submit to the United Nation Humanitarian?
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Originally posted by Hogzilla:
Yes. Reporters summarize. They do that sometimes. Damn you reporters!!
They never [b]distort, they GARBLE the message. For those who uses maths to understand English: distort =/= ("!=", this one is for programmers) garble.
Li Ao was comparing the people in some major cities. He said HKers are craftier then he said Singaporeans are stupid because they just whine when some unfair things happen to them but still choose the whinging path.
Then our Gahmen Mouth just report this, "Li Ao say Singaporeans are stupid."
Did they distort Li Ao's message? No. Li Ao indeed said Singaporeans are stupid.
Did they give our citizens the full message? No. That is what we call garble.[/b]
I want you to cut and paste the full transcript!!
Anyway, distortion is the common termlah when talking about the transfer of information. It consists of routing(send to wrong place), delaying, modifying and summarizing.