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...
From Mee Siam to Chill Crabs
Responding to the Hougang MP's call to cut the GST from 7% to 5% to help people cope with inflation, Christopher de Souza (Holland-Bukit Timah GRC) demonstrated the quality of the incumbents in office: "High income earners, we know, consume more and therefore pay higher GST." Just as Goh Chok Tong missed out on the definition...
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