i am one of those super anti pappies in this forum. but i disagree with you on this. if you were to look through all the things she said over the last 5 years, you would know she is not wayanging.
i remember 3 years back, the same chee bye ah neh mentioned that our current policy is more than enough to support the lower income groups (as usual same as today what's new), she du lan straight away stand up and wave her hands request to speak. straight away she demand statistic from the ah neh to prove what he said. to the extend i still remember her shooting the ah neh if the current policy was working, how come she has so many files of cases of poor family having problem paying for bills and sending their kids to school in her ward.
when i saw on paper and read what she did, i was wondering she want to quit pap already is it. that was when i start noticing her and i realised she was very consistent in her stands. when i go on and research what other stuff she did, she really gain my respect. if i am not wrong she provide free medical services to the poor in her ward. this is the kind of people we need in the parliament. but sadly most of the idiots in pappies are fucking useless and are only active during the election period
I am not only anti-PAP, I am anti-big government. Cos I think when a government becomes big (PAP or any oppositions), they become powerful and will demand more pay, more social spendings (to score points) hence more tax.
Tax to me is involuntary payment of money, which is similar and should be in the category of robbery and money extortion.
If Lily Neo is so passionate about helping the poor, she can very well start a charitable organisation and clamour for donations. That way, people who want to contribute can contribute, those who don't want are not forced. If they don't have enough funds, they can find ways and means to encourage donations.They can be creative, maybe market their "selling" points as being transparent showing their accounting records, etc. And I guarantee you the results will be immediate. No going through numerous bureaucracies, red tapes, blueprints, etc.... I think if you wait for the gov to act, the poor already dead. For a private charitable organisation, it is a different story. It can be immediate, more efficient and no numerous months and years of waiting for that miserable few hundred dollars per year. If she had started a private charity organisation, those files would have already been taken care of instead of still arguing on how much to pay and by how much in the parliament.
And as a private charitable organisation, they can decide how best to help those in need without going thru years of endless debates and in the end nothing happens till maybe election time.
Furthermore, if these welfares are done by gov, you can expect larg sum of the tax payers money will go to the officials first before and residue ends up in those in need. And you can't have any say till maybe next election and must wait for oppositions to contest, and only after majority gives the vote. Meanwhile you still have to pay taxes to feed these leeches leeching your tax money in order to "help" the poor.
For private charity organisation, if charity workers pay themselves too much you can vote immediately by not donating.
Tell me which works better?
