TR EMERITUS

MM Lee said something quite bizarre yesterday and Straits Times put it on the front page headlines anyway: "Solution to rising costs is to grow economy.." - MM Lee, Sunday Times headlines 1 May 2011. I suggest you read the  article yourself. He said that with economic growth the govt can give out "grow and share" packages: "After... 

I was watching this video[Link] in which Chee Soon Juan completely demolished and embarrassed Michael Palmer for bringing up this concept of "targeted assistance". If help is targeted based on need, why are millionaire ministers getting subsidies when they are sick and pensions when they retire....while the middle class have... 

You know how far down the standard of debate has fallen when an MP stands up and argues that cutting the GST does not help the poor. GST is a regressive tax that penalises the poor the most because they spend most of their income. If you're Wee Cho Yaw or Peter Lim you spend maybe 2% of your income and invest the rest, so you...