from The Daily Tribune Backbencher by Rod P. Kapunan
http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100130com3.html
All because there is a growing clamor for a reduction of taxes, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is cashing in on that sentiment, in the hope of easing the pain of being tagged as an intellectual loafer. For one, the Jesuits, who have been acting as the shepherds of the country’s elite, are already batting the idea of canonizing Cory Aquino, and they have every reason because it was she who restored to them the privilege of tax exemption while playing the dual role of attacking and collecting donations from the government.
This is why Noynoy, and obviously upon the advice of the hypocrites and the self-righteous, has come out in favor of a tax rate moratorium. Thus, people who are not familiar with the way the system works, easily buy the idea.
But no government can wholly rely on taxes to sustain its operational expenses. It must have its own source of income to sustain the ever-increasing expenses mostly confined to improving the welfare of our people. Even the icon of modern-day capitalism, the United States, would fold up if it just relied on taxes to sustain its domestic expenditures and overseas military aggression.
All because there is a growing clamor for a reduction of taxes, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is cashing in on that sentiment, in the hope of easing the pain of being tagged as an intellectual loafer. For one, the Jesuits, who have been acting as the shepherds of the country’s elite, are already batting the idea of canonizing Cory Aquino, and they have every reason because it was she who restored to them the privilege of tax exemption while playing the dual role of attacking and collecting donations from the government.
This is why Noynoy, and obviously upon the advice of the hypocrites and the self-righteous, has come out in favor of a tax rate moratorium. Thus, people who are not familiar with the way the system works, easily buy the idea.
But no government can wholly rely on taxes to sustain its operational expenses. It must have its own source of income to sustain the ever-increasing expenses mostly confined to improving the welfare of our people. Even the icon of modern-day capitalism, the United States, would fold up if it just relied on taxes to sustain its domestic expenditures and overseas military aggression.
