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When the Manpower Minister is hell bent on hiring foreign manpower........ That she resorts to absurd excuses: "Implementing levy charges for EP holders is not useful as companies can employ overseas knowledge workers remotely." Josephine Teo, 3rd March 2021. Hi Mrs Teo, I would like to...

Is PAP government in cahoots with rich developers to freeload for own benifit and enjoyment? How is it possible (/allowed) for these developers to retain the freehold land titles and yet sell the property as lease hold to buyers in this most egregious example of greed by land owners? Why was...

Gamestop mob is attacking the SIA share price (aka pump and dump by mob style)? The BVPS (diluted) is just $3.55 based as at 31.12.2020. The have your cake and eat it BVPS is $5.28 where SIA acknowledged the extra $3.5B MCB capital but didn't acknowledge the liability to pay back capital loan...

Some Singapore policemen really are monsters (hard core criminals themselves). https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/cops-wife-who-tortured-maid-to-death-pleads-guilty-to-culpable-homicide How come this policeman is so inhumane, immoral/ cruel? Installing CCTV cameras at...

WW3 will break out sooner than later. My thesis goes: USA is a morally decadent and uneducated society, this is evidenced by their undemocratic presidential electorial college system that is now as obsolete as it is increasingly polarising (one colour only vote for each state, resulting in...

ST: "America's economic preponderance is gone forever" . Biden faces uphill task rallying allies to US flag against China Are Biden and team making the same mistake in underestimating their rival? Big questions remain about whether President Joe Biden's administration's plans have any chance to...

Hi undiscern, Actually you have a point although this opens yet another can of worms which deserves a new thread to discuss. Probably PAP should not have built their exceptionally subsidised public housing called Pinnacle at Duxton for a very minority few, because it isn't sustainable and the...

Hi soaresb, I dunno if u are planting a decoy idea to derail my proposal. I think we all know very well that it is fool hardy and inefficient to tax capital gains because the vast majority of which cannot be effectively tracked and too many variances exist to formulate a workable tax plan...

Hi bus freaks, So all these low wage citizens in the photo have to suffer higher GST, just so that you can enjoy living off rent from your 2nd property? Normal times will have inheritance tax. Rental property is also a service, so by right u have to pay GST (service tax), also u received...

To promote inclusivity, top tier residential property tax should be up to 28.6% of AV (annual value). Currently, the max residential property tax is only 16% at max tier...

America (USA) is as United as N. Korea (DPRK) is a Democratic Republic. Hard truth: America is not United at all as evidenced by its refusal to update its obsolete electorial college system for Presidential elections because this allows state partisanship and the continued political...

Hi relaxlabrudder, Suggestion already answered I think. So relaxlabrudder, u actually think that the only nice good rich people are all ALREADY in Singapore? So much for navel gazing. Probably there are many who are queueing to contribute revenue/taxes to Singapore...

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Singapore government is indeed deaf to citizens feedback/ views. [Singapore] only two in five expressing confidence that the Government would consider their views seriously. "In a survey conducted as part of the exercise, four in five respondents said they were open to partnering the...

Top tier residential property tax should be at 33.6% of AV (to avoid regressive GST increase) Why 33.6% and other cavetes: Firstly, annual value (AV) is the value of a vacant property without any furnishings. Some of these properties contain many times the value of the property itself of...

I think as global warming happens, this kinda disaster will happen more often. Thee will also be drought and famine besides the immediate aftermath destruction due to sudden torrent/tsunami of flood water. This is because healthy glaciers fill river all year round with water, but unhealthy...

[Glacial Flooding] Most people living in developed countries have blood on their hands. buyBVlwYVdE Cos they caused global warming due to high carbon emissions. This has melted glaciers in mountainous regions and formed glacial lakes. Unfortunately, the glacial lake is stoppered at its mouth...

Instead of increasing GST, Freehold/ expensive residential property owners ought to pay extra property tax or convert their tenure to leasehold 99 years. (Its like flying business / first class when everyone else is economy class or cannot afford plane ticket, so the tax tiers ought to be much...

SIA share price should be $3.03 rather than the $4.11 that it is now. Hi Heartyman, Share price should hover around $3 lah, that is why they priced the SIA rights at $3 and also why the MCB is priced to convert to an SIA share at $2.68 worth of MCB at inception. (ideal scenario for MCB...

Shouldn't gold price increase with decreasing long term US treasury yields, since the lower the interest rate(/yield), the cheaper it is to borrow money to invest in gold? And how do small central bank balance sheets "provides a backstop for the precious metal" in the context of "ballooning...