... that the whole world is in chaos & chaos bring order to the universe is actively practised by this ministry.
Unbalanced Balance Sheet
Any one wishing to learn how to make 2 + 2 = 22 must read the figures released by our Finance Minister on Budget Day. Budget is supposedly a tight-rope walk to balance revenue v/s expenditure. But by the time this excercise gets done Acrobat is lying on the ground along with all the Tax payers :(
Finance Minister Jaswant Singhji please make more allocations to write-off the loans taken by tax-evading industrialists. Channel more funding into highly unproductive state like Jammu & Kashmir. Fund a few more foreign jaunts by our Ministers & bureaucrats to learn how to bring down inflation. Isn’t that why we the honest tax payers toil 8 hours a day (sometimes even more) to give 1/3rd of what we earn to your kitty to be blown as per your whims & fancy?
Qatl-e-Aam (Massacre... Holocaust...)
No other words can describe that fateful day the whole of India eagerly awaits the Hangman respectfully called FMji raises to read the tragedy called Government Of India Budget. It brings tears in the eyes of even the coldest of heart.
After all the drama of Financial Analysts appearing on the ’idiot box’ warning us of the impending ’Armageddon’ finally when the ’Lord of Death’ raises to read the death sentence to all ’Bakras’ (sheep of the chop block) we can barely hear ’Dead Men Walking... Dead Men Walking...’ playing in the background.
A real tear-jerker scene which leaves everyone the senior citizens with no social security/health care, middle class families with no savings options & especially smokers cry
Warning : Don’t watch this scene if you have high Blood Pressure or heart problems. Hmm.... don’t watch it otherwise also as you might develop BP or heart problems after watching this horror show.
It doesn’t require a Financial Analyst to predict that taxes & prices will soar sky high with every repetition of this futile excercise.
Tax on Tax
India is the only developing country with one of the highest rates of taxation comparable to any developed country. And the only country to collect ’Tax On Tax’ the so called 10% surcharge on Income Tax. Do you know any other country that does that? Isn’t our country great?
If people somehow survive this ’Compound Taxing’ then there is sales , service tax on almost everything to strangle us.
As long as the youth are on the streets unemployed our government plays violin like Nero while Rome burned. The moment these lads start earning a decent salary the govt. springs up from some dark alley like a gangster to rob them.
Now a govt. that doesn’t provide even basic facilities squeezes 35% of the earnings of hard working tax payers; Doesn’t that remind us of corrupt police constables collecting ’commission’ from street side vegetable vendors? Or Mafia (Bhai log) collecting protection money (Hafta) from business men?
Abraham & Timothy
Jaswant Singh-ji don’t give me that ’’what did you do for country?’’ claptrap. Neither did Abraham Lincoln pay 1/3rd of his income as tax nor did he drive on roads full of pot holes & craters.
If he had he would have blown off a few buildings like Timothy McVeigh. To quote this fascist to you ’’The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants’’. You look Timothy McVeigh to me shedding the blood of the innocents.
Snakes that Homestead ant-hills
Who are the only ones who get happy after this annual circus?
Corrupt tax-evading industrialists who escape paying loans by declaring bankrupcy & get loan relief & newer loans from the Banks.
Dollar rich Information Technology moguls like Ajeem Premji & Narayan Murthy who are given extended Tax holidays year after year so that these multi-millionaires can soon become billionaires while rest of the country goes to dogs. I am not surprised to see Ajeem Premji as Worlds richest man soon (he was indeed No.2 for a few months) as he doesn’t pay a single paisa tax.
Big bulls like Harshad Mehta & Ketan Parikh who can fleece the middle class left with no long term investment options (with low interest rates)
So much for all the balderdash about subsidizing the ’poorer sections’. If Mr. Premji & Mr. Murthy are poor then the rest of us should be walking bare naked.
So while Vaghle (common man) is happy day dreaming about the ’future Super Power’ Duniya (world), our FM is busy stealing even his meager underwears from him.
This blood-sucking dept. doesn’t even deserve the single star I am forced to give by MS.
To quote Lao Tzu From Tao Te Ching (Book Of Life)
In mythical times all things were whole:
All the sky was clear,
All the earth was stable,
All the mountains were firm,
All the riverbeds were full,
All of nature was fertile,
And all the rulers were supported.
But, losing clarity, the sky tore;
Losing stability, the earth split;
Losing strength, the mountains sank;
Losing water, the riverbeds cracked;
Losing fertility, nature disappeared;
And losing support, the rulers fell.
Rulers depend upon their subjects,
The noble depend upon the humble;
So rulers call themselves orphaned, hungry and alone,
To win the people’s support.