Good speech by Inderjit Singh. Cost has been a perpetual issue in the last 5 to 6 years and every budget has been allocating billions of dollars to help Singaporeans, and in some cases companies offset the high cost of living and doing business in Singapore. I think this is not an efficient way to manage things and the right thing to do is to go and tackle the root cause of the problem and in this case address the cost issues. The government has neglected this for too long and we are now facing big problems, therefore costing the government more by having to do special transfers for things like the GST package, medisave top up, utility top ups, etc. We are fast becoming a subsidy state, if not a welfare one. Everyone needs to hold out his hand to the government in order to survive. This, as Inderjit Singh said, is not the way things should be. The Pioneer Generation Package is not a sign of good, but a sign of things gone wrong.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:24:31 +0000
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