How come it's always MORE money and not less?

Whenever the government announces anything you can be sure it involves making the government MORE money, never less!



I read this article and laughed myself off to bits again!

Foreigners to pay more as Singapore says citizens the priority

Foreigners in Singapore will pay more for education and health care as the government puts a priority on its own citizens, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said.

Lee also defended a planned increase in the consumption tax, saying the extra revenues would go mainly towards helping lower-income families in one of Asia's wealthiest economies.

"We have to treat visitors well, too, but citizens have to be treated better," Lee was quoted as saying in The Straits Times.

"Citizens come first in our priorities, in our thinking," said Lee, speaking at the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) convention on Sunday.

Official statistics say Singapore had a population of 4.4 million last year, but 18 percent of those were foreign workers who filled a wide range of jobs, from white collar to construction work.

The Straits Times gave no specifics on the increased education and health costs but said overseas students already paid 10 percent more for university and polytechnical studies.

For health care, permanent residents would pay more, and foreign workers would pay the full cost. Their employers would need to protect them with medical insurance, the report said.

While costs were going up for foreigners, Lee said Singapore's lower-income citizens would receive "far more" in terms of social programs and assistance from the government than what they paid, as a result of a planned increase in the goods and services tax (GST).

The main points :

1) "We have to treat visitors well, too, but citizens have to be treated better,"

2) "For health care, permanent residents would pay more, and foreign workers would pay the full cost"

Well that's what the government says. We Singapore citizens have been saying how about making the cost of healthcare LOWER for us since the PRs pay the same. After all we think as Singaporeans we should pay less than them right? Nobody was really asking for PRs to pay MORE. But rather for us Singaporeans to pay less!

And what does the government do? They RAISE the amount PRs have to pay, yet again fattening the coffers.

I think instead of saying "We have to treat visitors well, too, but citizens have to be treated better,", in reality it's a case of "we treat our citizens well, but we have to treat our visitors a bit less well now to keep the citizens satisfied"