Keeping in line with Congress policy of "Everything is free!", here goes the worst populist budget that must have ever been seen in the history of the world.
We're talking about siphoning off of 15 BILLION DOLLARS of the Indian public.
15 BILLION DOLLARS. Imagine investing 15b $ to upgrade irrigation systems, educate farmers, put in some innovative buffer schemes to protect farmers' crops when they face losses, infact innovate enough so that farmers never have to face losses.
Anyway, 15B$ is nothing really... our country has been looted by the Congress for more than half a century until now, of far more wealth.
RE:Another free candidate
by Fried Yakov on Mar 01, 2008 01:50 AM Permalink
Taxpayers in groups should start filing PIL's against the government for wasting the taxpayer's hard earned money on populist measures instead of urgent deelopment of infrastructure and defense capabilities. Such a huge amount of money if literally what the taxpayer's paid to the government for development and security activities and not for populism of the ruling party. It is time that we educated Indians woke up to such massive squandering of limited resources for populism. True if the small and marginal farmers require relief, then relief to the tune of 25 % of the loan could be provided. This would have relieved a certain amount of financial burden of the farmers, while encouraging production of more food to take care of the rest of the debt, as well as left considerable more money for developmental projects. I think now the taxpayers should demand complete waiver of personal taxes from this populist government as a 'relief measure'.
