The goal of the govt is to make sure its citizen stay productive and slave their life til end. Just as when you has a 50% pay raise, cost of living goes up 100%. Lowering the cost of living to give the citizen a better life is never their agenda. While cost of living & services go sky high, s'pore GDP will look impressive, thereby enriching themselves and being whore to the business bloodsuckers. Have you notice that they have stopped building hawker centre while foodcourt flourish all over the island? All foodcourt in s'pore HUAT AH!!!!