1.) I don't see a strong correlation between housing and your
issue of strong manipulator and moral guide of society.
2.) In such a scenario, the risk of constructing buildings will be
too high, not many developers will want to invest, they might end
up constructing a building with no buyers and end up paying heavy
taxes; they might shift investments elsewhere, leading to less
developers leading to oligopolistic or monopolistic developers who
might charge price of properties at supernormal profits. The idea
is to reduce tax, not to increase it, taxes in any form is bad,
even GST.
The cost of buildings is related to the tendering system that the
gov imposes, you get developers trying to outbid each other with
higher prices, such prices are passed on to the final home buyer.
At the end of the day, the gov has a bigger pocket and the home
buyer bears the brunt of the cost.
What is the cost of the land to the gov? Virtually nothing (unless
you are talking about reclaimed land, which they sold to private
developers at hefty profits), so the actual price of public housing
should be cost of construction (includes salaries of admin staff at
HDB), nothing else.
What right have they got to inflate prices of flats to astronomical
value? Every Singaporean deserves a right to cheap public
housing.
3.) Housing sizes and options will increase? Explain? The decrease
in newborns is related to the economic progress, I don't think
housing plays a significant part in it.
4.) Don't understand your logic in linking mosquitoes with
taxes.
5.) Don't understand your logic of more rental apartments being
built too. You said increase the taxes, tax is a cost to owners of
these apartments; do you know the true course of taxes; anything
you tax more, the spending in that area will decrease. You want the
consumption of something to increase with taxes? Never heard of
such a thing in economics, unless it's a Giffen good, which till
date, I have no idea what commodity can be considered a Giffen
good.
6.) No GST is better, I'd rather the gov look at ways of reducing
their own cost, like reducing the number of members of parliament
to 50 and reducing their salaries.
7.) These days morals aren't worth anything, you can't eat morals,
you can't drink morals, you can't wear morals, you can't dwell in
morals, what matters most is $$$, the more the merrier.
8.) Don't understand what you are trying to say here.
