Apr
15
While browsing net, I got a page of discussion where some pea-head brain put up this question—
First poster: Will someone please explain to me why it is
important for Lenovo to spend god knows how many dollars creating an Olympic Torch that is really a cigarette lighter on steroids, and why so many more hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent on carrying it by trains and planes and limousines around the world so people can run with it down city streets, why thousands are spent in putting it up in five star hotels and hundreds of thousands in guarding it, when that same money could feed all the people of Haiti for a year?
Second Poster: Response: No, you idiot, no one can explain symbolism to you, nor can they explain how pissed the people of Haiti will be when you stop feeding them after a year!
http://www.prempanicker.com/index.php?/site/point_counterpoint/
First poster: Will someone please explain to me why it is
important for Lenovo to spend god knows how many dollars creating an Olympic Torch that is really a cigarette lighter on steroids, and why so many more hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent on carrying it by trains and planes and limousines around the world so people can run with it down city streets, why thousands are spent in putting it up in five star hotels and hundreds of thousands in guarding it, when that same money could feed all the people of Haiti for a year?
Second Poster: Response: No, you idiot, no one can explain symbolism to you, nor can they explain how pissed the people of Haiti will be when you stop feeding them after a year!
http://www.prempanicker.com/index.php?/site/point_counterpoint/
It seems to be a by-product of a pea-size brain.The first poster knows nothing about consumerism and he certainly doesn’t know that any socialistic/communistic taxation system cannot gain the huge amount of money which the airlines, the Olympics games and the five star hotels can make. and after the making of money, it can be used for feeding the poor (if the politicians are righteous).
This is called voluntary taxation. Organise such games, sell lotteries and tickets, provide reason for the people to spend and they will shed their money for basic reason of helping the poor and minor reason of their entertainment.
Amitabh, or Sachin or Mahendra Singh Dhoni or Shah Rukh Khan provides maximum taxes to RBI, why? it provides them strange kind of fame, people thinks they are great patriot doing so much sacrifice for nation. But that is not so…
They earn fame and people’s good opinion about themselves by paying that lump sum amount of taxes.
What I gain after paying tax?
Nothing.
Even many people just dont pay taxes to get a income tax raid…because an IT raid creates a special niche for them and automatically declares them as crorepati. it is considered as a mark of fame.
It’s a fact that compulsory taxation can never succeed but voluntary taxation will never fail.
And also, a special exclusive section of the finance/insurance sector runs to help (loot) people for income tax. And there still are many baniyas and rich people living in small towns who don’t give damn to IT, many even don’t know that its that much required.
Even many people just dont pay taxes to get a income tax raid…because an IT raid creates a special niche for them and automatically declares them as crorepati. it is considered as a mark of fame.
It’s a fact that compulsory taxation can never succeed but voluntary taxation will never fail.
And also, a special exclusive section of the finance/insurance sector runs to help (loot) people for income tax. And there still are many baniyas and rich people living in small towns who don’t give damn to IT, many even don’t know that its that much required.
India must remove compulsory taxation and apply voluntary taxation. It is much more beneficial on all accords.
About the first poster in that page, I wonder from where such socialistic madness comes out in human mind. Why they just cannot think positive, right and reasonable?
The second commenter correctly slapped the first one. Its true that while saving the money from dislodging Olympics games from Haiti, they may feed people of Haiti for one year, but by organizing the Olympics games, they will earn enough to feed people of Haiti for 10 years. Money makes Money, and use of money by entrepreneurs creates Job opportunities for poor.
India will gain alot via the upcoming Commonwealth games to be organised in Delhi.
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manorath Says:
April 15th, 2008 at 11:57 ami can sense ur empathy
Rashi V Says:
April 15th, 2008 at 11:23 pmIf the politicians and others are righteous!!!
vanilla sky Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pmgreat article!
agree to each and every view of yours…
Lena Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 1:51 pmsmart! correct! and even wise, it is all about money but then the question is if they will feed people in Haiti at all… It is also about control of this money. Anyways money makes money and nobody suffers from people spending hell lot of money on olimpic torch because who said that if money wouldnt have spent on it it could be spent on feeding someone somewhere. The ones who have power and control have better ways of investing their money
unpretentious_diva Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 3:17 pm@lena
There’s you committed mistake,
they won’t even need to feed anybody, by the flux of visitors at Haiti due to Olympics games, there will be lots and lots of jobs created to provide enough for the people there to earn by their own will and right.
And that is the real way of feeding people.
Charity don’t works, though it negatively kills the self-respect of the poor and his will to work hard and make money of his own.
Lena Says:
April 17th, 2008 at 4:31 pmagreed, i admit i wasnt wise enough to see this. good point
Benji Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 7:54 amEven with compulsory taxation the amount of defaulters is frighteningly huge. With voluntary taxation the government will either collapse or use it as an excuse not to fo anything – not enough money they’ll say!
unpretentious_diva Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 7:57 am@benji
They wont have anything to do.
There will be honest police, working hard for right so that people may invest for them, cos government wont be able to give free salary to them, there will be honest private departments, so that consumers may use them, otherwise better and efficient companies or departments will take place.
Government itself is useless on economic front.
Shiva Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pmthe olympic torch is dominating the world
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Mardhanaya Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 2:57 amWow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing �
Martin Tremelling Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 5:26 pmThere is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.