You don't even need to ballot. In any European or American city or Chinese or Japanese city you just walk into a showroom and plonk down $25k for a Toyota Corolla.
What do we have here?
LIsten, moron, it's better to keep your mouth shut and look stupid than open your mouth and confirm it. Tell me more about how voting for another party won't change things but voting for your beloved PAP will. Maybe one day you'll buy your car. NOT. LOL.
Oh u are not only an incorrigible liar, you are also illiterate. Pull out the evidence where I explicitly say voting for PAP will change things. Lol... if you can't, it means u are a fucking hardcore liar who happens to be an idiot as well.
This is my final attempt at illuminating an imbecile, a well nigh impossible task by any measure.
You live in Singapore. What kind of fucking idiot will own a car, but decide to take mrt because it’s ‘worldclass’? Singapore is not a vast country where you have to take the train to a deserted countryside. Haha
Off the top of my head, a couple of real life examples. Going to a building in the CBD where parking is scarce, I'd take the train if there was a station just a 10 min walk away from my home. Another example: a neighbour of mine (who has a car) takes an MRT daily to work in the CBD (he's a remisier) because it's faster than driving through rush-hour traffic jams: he actually timed it and found that taking the train was 20 min faster.
U need to consider there may be diminishing returns on narrowing wealth gap mah
World class Smart citizen loh
If MRT so good, Ah Wong, Ah Siao and Ah Loong should be taking it everyday Mah, right?
O yes to fark sinkee backside deep deep. 555
Backside dripping profusely
Their intelligence is only to cdc voucher level. 555
Only limited to big data model aka 没办法第69式
The right to buy a home and car when these items are in high demand and the supply is limited by our small land size, would in all fairness, boil down to affordability. After all, we have to cut our coat in accordance to the amount of cloth that we are able to afford.
Govt is supposed to allocate fairly our limited resources to all sinkies, not allow speculation. The land can be sold off to highest bidder and to NC, so the car allocation certificate is sold to highest bidder. It is definitely not fair to all sinkies.
The govt opines that a car is not a basic right or a necessity in a small city with a public transport network. The resource being allocated isn't the car, but road space. Since road space is limited, the govt uses the COE as a market pricing mechanism that rations it.
In a scenario where the rich S'porean and a poorer one have the same chance to ballot for a COE, if the high SES individual wins, he gets to buy a cheap car. If a low SES person wins, he will probably flip the certificate for profit, or buy a car he cannot afford to maintain.
Why is a car not a necessity? Sinkies really kenna brain-washed deeply. A ferrari is not a necessity, it is a luxury. Luxury should be taxed higher to bring equity to income, not tax the same for bread & butter car hitting all families that have need for convenience.
It is difficult to put a price on convenience and comfort, so I am prepared to pay for both while owning a car. However, if the govt subsidises or lowers the barrier for entry-level cars so that every middle-class family may afford one, the number of vehicles on the road would result in SG becoming one big carpark. A traffic jam caused by 100,000 Hyundai cars slows down traffic as much as a jam caused by 100,000 Rolls Royces.
