Back to this topic again...
I personally do not understand why every minister taking over this portfolio kept on harping on same issues... Instead of making it better, each minister seems like trying to out do their predecessor by coming out with yet another “brilliant” idea...
To me personally, I’m not into subsidy thing and prefer to be out of any subsidy... My parents thought me from small to stand on my own for everything I did without depending on any subsidy or mercy of others...
From my perspective as a layman, things are quite simple and there have been a lot of comment about this, yet they simply refused to listen for reasons best known to them...
My suggestion; removed all petrol subsidies and let everybody pay on actual market price... at the same time, removed all road tax and reduce (if not abolish) all sales tax, import excise duty & road tolls... Once you did that, nobody is complaining... the poor will only use small fraction on petrol & the rich will have to pay for whatever they use...
Some may argue that the price of goods will go up... well, the transportation cost actually will remain almost the same because despite of paying extra petrol, they in return save in tolls, cost of purchasing the lorries as well as maintenance...
I knew somebody in charged of fleet or trailers, their actual “killing” cost is the maintenance, not the petrol... once you abolish taxes on import duties & sales tax, automatically the spare part costs, tyres etc will go down...
At the same time, the so called “savings” from the petrol subsidy, the government should channel it towards improving the public transport...
Honestly, in my personal opinion, if the public transport is efficient, almost half of those driving would prefer to use public transport... I for once don‘t mind using it... save me all the headache on parking, summons, maintenance, wear & tear, agony stuck in jams etc etc...
I guess, the main agenda why some choose to ignore are due to political reasons and position… this changes if ever been carried out, involved too many ministries which amongst ministers, they are known of ‘minding your own’ ministry “rule”…
I will touch on this again in near future till they can explain and make more sensible decision…
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