How about a fee to see your own MP?

cscs3 wrote:

Re: How come compulsory IC registration must pay $10? otherwise fine $5000, jail 5 years?
Early days yes. Until so many lost their IC and ask for replacement.
When you get something free. You never try to take care of them.

Charging $10 for a compulsory registration is NOT a practical solution. What is necessary is clear instruction about the consequences of loosing/ destroying one's IC and the penalties attached to each (minors under 16-18 should get a discounted 1st penalty).

If it is reasonable to charge for the COMPULSORY IC registration now, what's there to stop them from charging you a prohibitive fee to see your own MP (which isn't compulsory)?

Not least, charging S$10 to 15 and 30 year olds reflects very poorly on the government of Singapore which pays itself so well besides spending at least S$300million annual of government money on party linked community political activities [How PAP uses taxpayer-funded grassroots for political gain; G Giam, 10/2009 (link)]. The < S$1million annually collected from such exercise surely stains and sullies the reputation of the Singapore government as a penny pinching police state whose eyes of its leaders are constantly on their own profit, bonuses and prestige at the cruel expense of citizens of the state.

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