Did I do NS just to see my GST bill unnecessarily increase come 2017?

wallacetan wrote:

The correct word is ROBBED with the force of law, show me anyone that will pay taxes willingly without the force of law..
Is it morally right to ROBBED one group to give to another group?
Haven't the 'rich' already paid 10x more in tax-dollars then the 'poor'?
You still want to squeeze more out of the 'rich'?

Oei, pls don't say until so ugly leh. 60.1% of SGporeans endorsed the taxes of the PAP so unless U are suggesting that 60.1% of Singaporeans are robbers, can U pls elaborate what U mean?
Taxation isn't robbery (unless elections have been undemocratically/ corruptly conducted)- it is a system and as I repeat my dictionary's definition: they are a "charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government".

So the majority of Singaporeans support the PAP, so perhaps the majority of SGporeans have decided that the current rates and manner of taxation are an acceptable manner of collecting revenue "for the support of government".

Obviously, approx 60.1% of Singaporeans agree with the PAP's decision to use some of the revenue collected towards various public programmes such as poverty alleviation, courtesy campaigns and the improvement of national defenses and infrastructure etc etc.

Obviously each person has unique characteristics. I might eat say 100kg of noodles each year as compared to you who eats perhaps just 10% that but that alone DOES NOT make me a greedy person since it might be also true that rice is your staple as noodles are mine. Such a raw figure makes no logical sense in so far as a larger picture exists.

Regarding owner occupied discount property tax rates, it might be a skewed if not comical comparison but U seem pushing me to make it. Pte home owners (SG/ foreigners) in SG get to enjoy exclusive facilities such as tennis courts, swimming pools, gymnasiums, parking lots and perhaps even a boat berthing pier and a golf putting range- all this at a consumption tax rate less than the GST rate of 7%.

But if the HDB dweller were to seek the same from any private or public organisation (public/ private clubs)- they are charged GST of 7%.

Of course the nominal tax amount on the tennis court of the rich (imputed to annual value (AV) of property) is greater but who can match the exclusivity of playing tennis as and when you like, any time of the day or a private pier at your disposal, 24hrs a day?

Of course the rich pay more taxes given the luxuries that they enjoy, wine women and song enjoyed by not few as I know; palatial bungalows, few can afford to own.

The larger and dearer the property, the greater the security and resource provision to secure and upkeep it on a national scale: read SAF, SPF, SCDF, PUB (reduce ponding), SSC (like rich enjoy, average SGporeans want pools and tennis courts too) etc.

Pls tell me, did I do NS just to see my GST bill unnecessarily increase come 2017?

Rgds,
C6.
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