Sen. Ralph Recto has resigned from the Senate Ways and Means Committee due to the Sin Tax Bill fiasco. The problem stemmed when the government and various private health advocate groups wanted the Senate and the Congress to increase the taxes on cigarettes and alcoholic products to generate more income and to eventually deter the public from patronizing these habit forming and disease causing merchandise. Surprisingly though, Sen. Ralph "Taxman" Recto who authored the 12% VAT Law which severely increased the prices of fuel, food and other basic commodities a few years back now refuses to hike the tariff on "sin" products! Weird, isn't it?
Mr. Taxman said he doesn't want to increase the levy on these commodities because if the price end up too high then nobody will buy such items anymore and the government will end up collecting nothing from the smoking and drinking public. Wow! Do you believe this guy? He refuses to increase the toll on stuff that make people addictive and sick but he gladly made most basic and important goods expensive and almost beyond the reach of consumers! Yup, this guy wants to raise taxes on important and essentials products like fuel, food, basic services, etc. but rejects hiking the levy on habit forming produce.
Why? Well, the answer is simple. If smokes and alcoholic drinks are too expensive then the public won't buy it but if basic and necessary goods get pricey, consumers have to bite the bullet because that product is a necessity. Less sin products sold means lesser taxes paid which also means lesser cash to steal from the public! Politicians never cared if ordinary folks end up hungry and famished as long as we end up buying and paying the 12%VAT but when it comes to non-essential goods, these assholes in Government are reluctant to hike the toll since the people can sacrifice and avoid buying them.
Is this asshole gone crazy? Has he been smoking a lot of loco weed lately? Some are accusing him of being bribed and pressured by the tobacco and alcohol companies to junk the tax hike on their products. I guess we will never know if someone got paid and who made the pay-off, these transactions are generally kept secret and nobody is going to expose their own wrong-doings.
Nope, Sen. Ralph "Taxman" Recto is not an escapee from the Looney-bin folks. It's Election time and just like any other Politician, he wants to be remembered by the voting public as the lone public official who opposed the majority and refused to increase taxes for the benefit of the consuming public. Sen. Recto learned well from his past mistake of sponsoring the 12%VAT Law which made him lose his reelection bid at that time so his doing the opposite move now. Yeah, everybody hated him way back them but like some malignant and festering disease he kept coming back and now he got his seat in the Senate once again.
Sen. Recto is trying to outwit, out think, out class and screw us all over again so that we will vote him and his wife next Election day. Let's give this guy a warm applause for being a clever, witty and ingenious politician. He's trying to make himself appear as the defender, protector and champion of the consuming/buying public against exorbitant tax hikes on basic goods when in fact, he was the one who made all our lives more miserable when all prices went all sky high after the 12%VAT was imposed.
Instead of protecting the Filipinos from hunger and poverty by not implementing the 12%VAT and increasing the taxes now on tobacco and alcohol to deter users from patronizing such disease causing goods, he is doing the opposite move.Let's all give this politician a standing ovation for trying to pull another fast one on all of us. Let's reward him with zero votes on May 2013!!!
Mr. Taxman said he doesn't want to increase the levy on these commodities because if the price end up too high then nobody will buy such items anymore and the government will end up collecting nothing from the smoking and drinking public. Wow! Do you believe this guy? He refuses to increase the toll on stuff that make people addictive and sick but he gladly made most basic and important goods expensive and almost beyond the reach of consumers! Yup, this guy wants to raise taxes on important and essentials products like fuel, food, basic services, etc. but rejects hiking the levy on habit forming produce.
Why? Well, the answer is simple. If smokes and alcoholic drinks are too expensive then the public won't buy it but if basic and necessary goods get pricey, consumers have to bite the bullet because that product is a necessity. Less sin products sold means lesser taxes paid which also means lesser cash to steal from the public! Politicians never cared if ordinary folks end up hungry and famished as long as we end up buying and paying the 12%VAT but when it comes to non-essential goods, these assholes in Government are reluctant to hike the toll since the people can sacrifice and avoid buying them.
Is this asshole gone crazy? Has he been smoking a lot of loco weed lately? Some are accusing him of being bribed and pressured by the tobacco and alcohol companies to junk the tax hike on their products. I guess we will never know if someone got paid and who made the pay-off, these transactions are generally kept secret and nobody is going to expose their own wrong-doings.
Nope, Sen. Ralph "Taxman" Recto is not an escapee from the Looney-bin folks. It's Election time and just like any other Politician, he wants to be remembered by the voting public as the lone public official who opposed the majority and refused to increase taxes for the benefit of the consuming public. Sen. Recto learned well from his past mistake of sponsoring the 12%VAT Law which made him lose his reelection bid at that time so his doing the opposite move now. Yeah, everybody hated him way back them but like some malignant and festering disease he kept coming back and now he got his seat in the Senate once again.
Sen. Recto is trying to outwit, out think, out class and screw us all over again so that we will vote him and his wife next Election day. Let's give this guy a warm applause for being a clever, witty and ingenious politician. He's trying to make himself appear as the defender, protector and champion of the consuming/buying public against exorbitant tax hikes on basic goods when in fact, he was the one who made all our lives more miserable when all prices went all sky high after the 12%VAT was imposed.
Instead of protecting the Filipinos from hunger and poverty by not implementing the 12%VAT and increasing the taxes now on tobacco and alcohol to deter users from patronizing such disease causing goods, he is doing the opposite move.Let's all give this politician a standing ovation for trying to pull another fast one on all of us. Let's reward him with zero votes on May 2013!!!
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