You as an Indian citizen have been paying various taxes for the last 75 years - from income tax to house tax to road tax to even tax on water. What facilities has the government given you in return ? You have to pay for healthcare, for education and everything else. Tax on even water ? Water is among the human rights which had to be obtained by the citizen for free yet in India it is not.
Infrastructure such as roads and underground pipes to transport and reservoirs to store water from where it is pumped to your house nalka ? oh, and water is free, go drink from some clean jheel, nadi.. I often do when up in the mountains.
Doctron aur teachron ki salary tu dega ? nahi na ? state ko deni chahiye ? .. State kiase dega without kamaying without taxes ?
During COVID's mass deaths last year the afflicted people and their families had to mortgage their houses and sell their livestock to get money to pay the hospital bills, the medicine and oxygen machines for care at home. Your government did not provide you with a free hospital bed that was waiting for you as you were left severely ill with COVID.
Government hospitals like AIIMS are either free for the poorest sections of society and highly subsidized for everyone else. AIIMS also imparts some of the best medical education in the world, therefore Indians have made a name for themselves as being among the best doctors anywhere in the world, part of the AIIMS program is for rookie fresh grads to go and serve for a period of time in government facilities around the country and work basically pro bono as they sharpen their skills for a period of few years and serve the people. Pending which, most choose to get into the private space and get really high paying jobs plying their expertise in one of many private hospitals where they continue to save lives but also earn a hefty and well deserved paycheck for their years and years of
ragdai to reach where they have finally. If anybody deserves to have wealth, it is our doctors.
ek to jaan bachate
India ka naam bhi roshan karte
doctron ko slute/slami.
The governments of India spent money and other resources on making India one of the two largest importer of armaments in the world ( the other being Saudia ). Money on weaponry and war posturing while inside the country four million Indians died of COVID and the rest continue to live in misery in the last 75 years
Yeh discussion aap aur hum pehle bhi kar chukay hain.. koi ni.. remind kar deta hoon ek baar fir..
Dekho, India lives in a hostile geopolitical neighbourhood.. Pak/China hain hamaray aar-paar.. need I give you a history lesson ? National skorti to among the sabse top ki cheez hai that the state needs to take care of.
India is NOT a belligerent, expansionist or imperialist state.. hamaray jawanon/afsaron/airmen/sailors etc ke paas dunia ka top miltry maal hona chahiye taaki vo ek solid deterrence capability maintain kar sakain in our hostile neck of the global woods.
Jahan tak COVID ki baat rahi... dekho, poori dunia me bhot log tapak gaye is bimari ke lapatein mein aa ke. Pandemic chees hi aisi hai, thankfully only once in a generation aati hai.. most unfortunate. Again, I'll repeat what I'd said earlier, even many of the super rich with the best facilities and doctors succumbed to it.
..except for a few like Ambani and Adani with their daily obscene and ostentatious show of wealth in the faces of the poor.
is it ill gotten wealth but ? A lot of these entities put a lot of money in charities and so on
https://www.reliancefoundation.org/who-we-are most big companies have a charity arm.
hell, even me, in my comparatively extremely minuscule capacity to do charity... i still donatr a few bags of cat and dog food to local shelters now and then, also feed strays, installed bird baths / feeders around my place, got many dogs neutered (and yes, paid the vet.. who would very understandably not have done it for free) and so on..
"show of wealth in the faces of the poor" - my ***.. some people, hard as it is for you to digest, just happen to be rich.
it is not an "obscene and ostentatious show of wealth" when a fancy Italian sportscar or superbike overtakes me on the highway.. good for them.. those are amazing machines that were conceived and put together by some amazing brains, technicians, designers, engineers and so on. I sure wish I had the money to get in on that scene but unfortunately I do not
.. but that is still no reason for me to begrudge anyone for it.
Stop lusting over other peoples money.. it is theirs, not yours, and certainly not "ours"
Also, curiously.. you've not had much to say about the extreme opulence your dear Colonel and his family enjoyed, have you ? Why is that ?
Lastly, again about tax, are we living under a feudal or a monarch to give him income tax and other taxes ? Why should taxes exist in the modern world, especially in the so-called World's Largest Democracy ?
If I were to be selfish, I would agree.. "why tax anyone ?"
that's extremely libertarian of you.. wow
but I'd rather pay some tax that helps the government can take care of our infra, defence and other critical needs.