First of all, drop that nonsense about the ERP being a measure for easing congestions. The sooner the people are told that ERP is to car usage just like GST is to spending, the better. Easing congestion can be the secondary objective of the ERP, but if the people are really dying for the gahmen to deal with the road congestion problems, then the number of new cars will be limited and they shouldn’t complain when they can’t get a COE to buy one. And try an imagine your fellow Singaporean making a living by being a car salesman. The poor guy is gonna eat grass very soon!

In short, the ERP is nothing more than an attrition tax just like your road tax. Not only that, ERP is a far more elegant system compared to the current road tax system whereby only owners of vehicles are paying for the maintenance and construction of roads. You use the roads more, you pay more ERP because you wear down the roads more. Can we find a fairer system than the ERP where all road users and not just car owners are taxed? Is it fair that only car owners are paying for it?

If you have better ideas, tell me!

It is not true that your electricity tariffs only goes up but never come down in tandem with oil prices.

Here are the facts: In June 30th 2006, crude prices was US$74.15 at its highest, and electricity tariffs per kWh is S$0.2115 on July 1st. On April 1st, 2008, crude prices was US$105.10 at its highest, and electric tariffs per kWh is S$0.2388. When you take these figures into consideration, the percentage difference of crude prices between June 2006 and April 2008 is 29.44%, but the percentage difference of electric tariffs is 11.43%, not even half of the fluctuation in oil prices!

Thus, if you chart oil prices and electric tariffs over all these years, you might actually notice that overall, while both lines will show an upward trend, the 2 lines do not exactly have the same gradient. In simpler terms, oil prices rises more steeply than our electric tariffs. In short, when prices shoot up, you are almost enjoying some kind of subsidies, but when the prices come down, you are just paying more so you won’t have to pay more in the next price spike of crude oil!

Come on, Singapore! Be reasonable!!

Look at your HDB flat prices from a different perspective!

Quit listening from Chiam See Tong and the opposition and free yourself from suffering! Stop griping over the fact that tje cost used for the construction of each unit is far lower than the price it was sold to you, and stop feeling indignant over the figures seemingly pulled out of thin air to justify the cost of the land!

The fact is, when you consider any kind of pension fund in any part of the world, it is always the case that the younger generation will pay into the fund so the older ones can draw it out when they reach the magic age.

Now, after you have paid out of your CPF to buy that house, while funds in the CPF is paid interest, do you not want that money you paid for your HDB flat to also rise in value? Can’t you all see what we are doing here? Is that so hard to imagine?

Singaporeans, you have wounded your caring and loving gahmen deeply. You should be ashamed of yourself!