What are the risks for Singaporeans in PAP’s foreigners reliant economic model?
After the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Singapore's economy was structurally altered. Job creation fell to an unprecedented range. Industries restructured and many left for cheaper destinations. Since then till 2006 when PAP started its fully liberalised immigration policy, this predicament together with the slowdowns due...
Budget gives more than required – Ministers’ Pay?
In March 2007 while the Budget was debated, I wrote to TODAY regarding benchmarking of top civil servants and Ministers' salaries. That was several months after the 2006 Election and then our Govt increased the pay of top civil servants and Ministers. Specifically in the conclusion of my letter, I wrote :- "Perhaps, a new benchmark...
The Oppressive Goods and Services Tax (GST)
The well-heeled may take the 7% GST in their stride, but it is certainly a burden to the low-income group. It is so all-embracing there is hardly any service, government or otherwise, that one is exempt from paying GST. The Finance Minister claimed in his tendentious Parliamentary speech that the low-income group paying GST...
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