Just when I thought about why I haven't seen any dumb shit today, so apparently lakh crores worth goes to 10-20k odd student's education fees. The math totally adds up đź‘Ť
This is one example but if you want more, the soldiers on the border, the metros you travel to work to, the Chandrayan that landed on the Moon, the IIT and NIT all are funded from Tax payers like us.
IIT/NIT are not completely founded by tax money, Annual fee at IITs are around 2.5L you can get a decent private college for the same fee.
Everything you've included only constitutes a small percentage (<<<50%), where does the rest of it go?
Well said.
Money begets money.
Govt subsidies in the right sector builds nations.
Just impose the same taxes on the 'farmers' and I am happy to throw away even more money.
All this when miniscule % people actual pay any direct taxes, imagine when everyone pays their fair share.
I mean even small country like Uzbekistan has flat 12% income tax from minimum wages factory labour to ceo, at the very least it's habit forming.