When car loan policy change , when people have problems buying a
car , they normally will switch to renting a taxi .
Run on diesel , subsidise rate , rental including tyres ,
maintenance , insurance , road taxes ..... cheaper than owing a car
.
Now with such taxi rental , they will have to take buses and mrt
liao .
Or take taxis .
At the expense of current full time taxi drivers .
All thanks to those rent taxis for personal usage .
All kind of patterns all come out to rent a taxi for
personal usage .
Now LTA patterns also more than badminton liao ....
High rental , mileage quotas ....... for LTA , it's
a good-for-all solution .
For us ? Cham liao .....
Do not underestimate your fellow countrymen, 50% upfront in
buying car is no problem for many, if not why COE still so high,
remember that COE was reduced so as to curb inflation, not reduced
because people cannot buy, even at $90,000 for a piece of paper,
still fully taken up.
Yes, laymen like you and me may not be able to afford that
luxury of putting 50%, even can, also heart Pain, unless it is was
gain thru 4D, toto or other lucky means or Ah Kong's left over
money slowly spent away by lousy decendants.
In Singapore, COE control car population, it control also the
able and the unable, but the nos of car one got to have is
limitless, you as TD goes by so many private houses to sent of pick
up paxs, you see the how many cars does each have?? 3? 4? or some
even have a garage with 10 luxury to sporty cars to play
around.
Therefore, as a basic family man who really need a car in a
social sense will find it very difficult to own one, but on the
other hand, those eat full buy pao type of people, who have more
cars than needed are buying cars like eating fish soup at cambridge
road, so you see that inequlibrium here.
And when our govt attracted more and more richs, you will see
higher and higher cost of living, because to the rich, what is high
cost? as long as there is peace, a haven and place to put and wash
my money in a safe place, who cares?
But it is the laymen like us that cares, laymen like us that
cannot afford that 50% will turn to drive taxis, be it fulltime or
partime just to live on,
You cannot blame them, the society acted upon them to go into
this line, same like your and me, why driving taxis??.. not
that they or we wanted, but if a hotel/hospital
driver paid is $4,000 with bonuses, OT, increment
and all others benefits and looking for a driver who can drive it
home after work, you think you still driving Taxis?
