KINIBIZ Ah yes, Tiger really can’t argue with the budget as a policy document - widen the tax base through a goods and services tax, lowering income tax, increasing real property gains tax to deflate bubbles... and so on.
But where, oh where, were the measures to cut wastage and, yes, corruption? Where was the sequencing of mega projects? So Tiger turns budget planner and fills up the obvious blanks in the budget.
Here are 10 measures the PM should have prefaced his budget speech with, announced exactly as we have phrased them:
Go to KiniBiz for the full article.
This article was written by P Gunasegaram.
Related stories
Khairy justifies fat salaries for gov't agency heads
Why YB Ong Kian Ming is 'nakal'
'Abolishment of sugar subsidy too much, too soon'
