Our economy is in a mess because those who should pay are not paying taxes in accordance with their actual income. Money doesn’t grow on trees. Government has to generate revenues through a fair taxation system and a fair system of tax collection would remain a far cry unless the government knows actual income of citizens of the country. Every government from 1948 hitherto has only chuntered and dithered about documentation of country’s economy and hasn’t done anything concrete in the matter.
Omicron is on our heads as some cases of it have been reported in the country. New versions of Covid may keep coming to us for years so the government should never allow itself to be caught on the hop on this score. Not only should those who are yet to be vaccinated need jabbing urgently but arrangements for giving booster doses should also be made at once.
In a country like Pakistan where half of population doesn’t know where its next meal will come from, it is criminal to spend lavishly on marriage ceremonies. If on the one hand it rubs salt into the wounds of the have nots, on the other, it widens the cleavage between them and the filthy rich thus imbalancing society.
POSTSCRIPT: It seems that the rift between the PPP and the politicians belonging to the various factions of erstwhile MQM is widening by the day. If all the politicians who were once staunch members of the former MQM but are now toeing different lines join heads they can definitely pose a threat to the PPP in many parts of Sind in the next general elections.
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