Like it or not mate, Karachi contributes the highest taxes and doesn't at all get what it deserves. Have you seen the markets and areas that pay more taxes than Lahore itself? Have you seen their situation? They look horrible. The disparity in development between the North and Karachi cannot be justified by any argument you bring. Sorry.
We still account for 25% of the GDP and pay more taxes than a lot of major cities combined as I said earlier. Anyways, thanks for giving me the suggestion to check the search option and 'educate myself'. I learnt a lot against your argument.
Like I keep saying, please use the search function. All of this has been
answered ad infinitum on this forum over the past many years. I can't go through the same 20 page discussion every time a new member cannot be bothered to use the search function. To rest this issue in this thread, below are some extremely simple concepts which apparently a certain group from Karachi just cannot get.
1) Karachi does not pay all that it collects. The overwhelming majority of tax
collected from Karachi is
paid by people from outside of Karachi. That is how tax is collected in the country, like it or not.
2) The tax anyone anywhere pays is not zakat or khairat. It is
owed to the state and
it is owed to every other Pakistani of the state equally. The tax you pay does not belong to you, the tax Karachi pays does not belong to it.
3) The amount of tax collected from an individual is proportional to that individual's income. Karachi makes more money than the rest and hence would obviously pay the most tax in total. Karachiites are not doing anyone any favors, it is what they owe the state. In fact, by all accounts, no city pays what it actually owes. Still it is Islamabadis who pay more tax per person. More people pay taxes in Lahore than in Karachi despite the massive population difference between the two. Neither of the two cities are ever heard wailing and whining.
4) The funds distributed to provinces from the federal budget are a) miniscule and b) distributed on a per capita basis to the provinces, exactly as they are owed. They are distributed after the agreement of every single province. The center does not just get up and start raining money on Punjab. Punjab, literally, has nothing to do with what Karachi does or does not get. The mere assertion is idiotic. When you see Karachi in the dumps and Lahore not, your incompetent political leaders have to rationalize it for you. Also the reason why no political party from any other province ever raised any official objection to the distribution of taxed rupees, including MQM. These claims are for the benefit of their sheep only.
5) What Punjab has built has been built through Punjab's own provincial budget which it generated itself, not some fictitious amount you paid in Karachi to the center. That is not how federal funding works, that is not how federal taxation works.
6) Those who do not wish to be educated can never be. This post is for the benefit of those who do. You can take your "mein nahi manta" anywhere you want. For any further debate on the matter, use the search function. This discussion ends here.
Also, I'm expecting a response to this as well:
Should not have added it after I had already responded.
the only real answer is , I can honestly give is; Pakistans provinces outside of sindh make up is homogenous groups that are
similar to each other, or are of the same
type: ; natural bond and unity comes with this and with others outside there province as well
That is not correct at all. This is why I said that people from Karachi need to step outside of Karachi every once in a while.
