Originally posted by anonymouscoward:
Original post by Atobe:
It goes to show that when a 'Myth' is spoken often enough, it will soon become the 'Truth' .
Reply by anonymousecoward
A truth is a truth no matter how you project it to be. Where will the government get its reserve if it stops all this collection?
Perhaps we can sell our natural resources? Oops.. we DON'T HAVE ANY.
If you intend to follow the Politics of the Ruling Political Party, at least learn to do it the way it is done by Them.
Lie in a way that no one knows it is a Lie. Did the Opposition MP propose that a Government stops all this collection, or did the Opposition MP suggest that CERTAIN TAXES be abandoned, and if not possible to be abandon - could the taxes not begin after a set upper limit ?
Can you comprehend the difference between a TWISTED FACT and a LIE ?A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Lenin (1870 - 1924)
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Original post by Atobe
Has the propaganda of the Ruling Political Party aka the Government been so effective that even the simplest educated person can believe that WHENEVER the OPPOSITION propose any public expenditures it will bankrupt the Nation; and that only the Ruling Political Party aka the present Government is capable of spending BILLIONS WIHTOUT EVEN SEEN to be BANKRUPTING THE NATION - besides the fact that it is BRIBING the same Citizens ?
Response by anonymouscoward :
Common sense.. and even children can tell you that when there is no income to sustain expenditures, any country will go bankrupt.
Btw... who says anything about bankrupt? I'm saying it is good for a country to have a strong reserve. Stopping collection will weaken this reserve.
Common sense is not so common, when one refuse to exercise some flexibility in thinking, and open one's eye to see situations with some difference in perspectives.
Did LHL say that the Opposition's plan was to bankrupt the country with the Opposition's proposal of 'spending without collecting' ?
Is it good for a country when every cent of the Citizens is collected till the State Treasury is OVERFLOWING with surplusses ?
Is it good for the Citiznes when their hard earned monies are soaked up by the multiple services which they are dependant on, and which are monopolised by the State created enterprises that knocked out all other private enterprises ?
What benefit is to the Citizens, when all the monies collected that enrich the Government is spent on OVERSEAS FINANCIAL ADVENTURES - purchasing foreign assets at such HIGH PREMIUMS that our blood money is spent on ?
Original post by Atobe :
Should we not see the same dollars that are being PRESENTLY PROPOSED to be disbursed by the Ruling Political Party aka the present Government as PRE-ELECTION VOTE BUYINGS ?
Response by anonymouscoward
That's why it is an insignificant one time goody. Beside, most Singaporeans are not so dumb as to be bought over by this mediocre gesture.
Are you missing the core of the issue that is being debated ?
The Opposition Expenditure Plan is ridiculed by the Ruling Political Party, and yet the Ruling Political Party Expenditure Plan is no different from the Opposition.Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Original post by Atobe :
We should view - with the same set of glasses - the PROPOSED AMOUNTS of disbursement from the Opposition Parties and instead judge the EFFECTS of the benefit to Singaporeans in the short and longer terms.
Response by anonymouscoward
And when should we look at long term? When crisis happens?? What Steve Chia is proposing is the waver of conservation tax. A reduction or tax when it exceeds a certain amount is good; but not waver.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970),
"Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970),
"Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 194
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic