How Taxing!!

If there is a minority that never gets represented in the election scheme of things, it is the tax paying population. As per various reports, the tax payers in our country range from 2.35% to 2.99% of population - which is roughly 3 to 5cr tax payers for 115 to 120cr total population!! That makes us tax payers a minority that literally runs the machinery.

Well, to begin with, TDS is cut even before we get money in hand. Then we are taxed several times over when we shop for groceries, clothes, essentials, electronic items and almost everything else. We shop at malls, eat in A/C restaurants, watch movies at a multiplex and get taxed some more. When we fly, we are choked with insane opportunity pricing, and lesser said about the road toll, the better it is. 

So basically, despite paying the direct and indirect taxes, this 3% population has zero say in any policy related matters. These are the people who are parting with 10% to 30% of their salaries. These are the people who are spending money and living a good life. They are also "victims of a good life" and cannot scale down their standard of living.

Yes, i believe in what goes around, comes around. All the employees in these restaurants and malls and spa's and other service industries have a cause-effect relationship on our incomes and so-on and so-forth... 

There has to be a limit to this insane taxation. Yes, we are a country of poor people. A lot of subsidies have been given to make education affordable, and petrol cheaper, and creating opportunities for us. For once, i would like this money being put to good use. Why are our government offices is such poor shape? Isn't that an asset bought / rented / acquired from our tax money? Why are there no pubic loos? Why dont we have footpaths every where? Why dont our city planners develop separate highways and service roads? Why is there little or no communication between government agencies, when new roads are dug up multiple times for cabling and plumbing and god only knows what else. Why can't we have affordable and reliable public transport?  

I really would like to see the tax money put to good use - considering we are paying it twice!! We need these funds to be used for prosperity of this nation. For betterment of everyone. 

Let us not be invisible in our own country. Let us make sure that the money we pay as tax goes in for development - and not in some mattress or Swiss account. This time, keep the thieves out!! Vote for the non-corrupt candidate - no matter how inexperienced he / she is.