Originally posted by Gazelle:
1) You have blamed the government of using Singaporeans tax money
to fund the reclaimation of the land. (to support your argument
that government is pampering the rich at the expense of the poor)
And now you are saying that Singapore government sold the land to
the IR bidder for very high price. Doesnt these statements
contradict each other?
You repeat what I said so
cleverly, but make no effort to read carefully and think about the
sentences printed.
When the Singapore Government sell those reclaimed land at very
high prices, have you ever wondered where will that sum of money go
to ?
Does it help to increase the interest rates paid to your CPF
account, or help to lower the cost of your HDB flats, or pay for
the infrastructure costs for the roads, MRT, sewer and water
distribution lines - so as to lower the costs of all these services
that Singaporeans are being charged at a high price, even when the
same is being built with our money ?
In all likelihood, the huge sum of money received - from the sale
of the reclaimed land to these two IRs - will most likely end up
into the accounts of the GIC and Temasek Holdings, and perhaps
another Thaksin will sell another Shin Corp to Temasek, and walk
away with $3 Billion of our money.
Can you Think for yourself, or have you been so dependent for all
things to be clearly spelled out for you ?
I wonder if you will be able to read the ''writings on the wall'', or perhaps
you will mistake it to be grafitti ?.
2) Could you please explain what sort of stamp duties the
government impose on contractors and sub contractor? Kindly please
explain.
It seems that you are still a
whole league behind in the business world. You want to know more,
do some research about ''Stamp
Duties''.
3) Suppose if the IR can create 20,000 [b]new jobs for
singaporeans and their residents, doesnt the families of these
20,000 employed workers benefits from the IR?
[/b]
20,000 out of 4,000,000 plus
residents ? Keep the ball rolling and you may hit all 4,000,000
after some time, if you can provide sufficient impetus to start the
ball rolling.
4) Suppose when when IR is up and running and Singapore is able to
attract an addition 10m tourist to Singapore, doesnt that benefit
Singaporeans as more tourist will be spending money in
Singapore?
10m tourist ? In one year ? Are
you for real - when the Government is hoping to have 4m arrivals
?
Even at the current rate of arrival, how much of the current
numbers have benefitted the heartlanders ?
2006 saw an increase in tourist arrivals, yet during end-2006
unemployment rate was still hovering at 2.4%; and during the last
report in early May 2007, the unemployment rate was at
2.8%.