Lifted from the "SKETCHES" By Ana Marie Pamintuan. This was the joke of the day yesterday: “PDAF + DAP = holdup” The joke, of course, is on the people, including those of us who automatically share over a fourth of our take-home pay with the government. The withholding tax is on top of the value-added tax we pay on everything from road toll to medicine, fuel and utilities.Because many of us are math-challenged and the budget process is like rocket science to us, there has been little public discussion over the way the annual national appropriation, which has ballooned from billions of pesos in the past decades to the current trillions, is actually utilized.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:47:21 +0000