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In the recently announced Shadow Budget by Singapore Democratic Party, Dr Wijeysingha proposes to abolish GST stating it as a regressive tax that "unfairly places the burden of taxation on the less well off". There is no doubt the present GST system is indeed unjustifiably weighing on the low income earners when they are the... 

Chee Soon Juan I am happy for you that your SDP supporters have recently succeeded to raise $20,000 for the court-imposed fine that you have to pay, or you go to prison for some 6 months at a time when you are needed to help administer SDP's candidates for the coming GE. Even Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam chipped in some money to the... 

In my article on Budget sweeteners entitled, “Why Accept Carrots When You Own the Farm”, I said that it was hardly surprising that the PM hinted at a good Budget in his CNY speech since the government had been running a surplus of around 10% of GDP this year. This was part of a fairly unbroken trend and that was before accounting...