On average, every Indian pays 24% of their income in indirect taxes. They in no way contribute less to a country's development than corporate folks. However, when a government announces a welfare scheme for the marginalized, everyone starts shouting "freebie.
The Indian middle class is often caught between two worlds, and they can feel insecure and resentful of both the wealthy and the marginalized.
If India had set up an unemployment benefit (for certain period after job loss) such as the one in developed western countries, will it be considered a freebie? Especially during the current market scenario?
Giving TV, Mobile and free electricity is not welfare schemes.
TV - Research has concluded that free TV has reduced domestic violence, preference for a son and fertility, as well as increases women's autonomy in the household. https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/qjecon/v124y2009i3p1057-1094..html
Free Electricity - Only farmers get free electricity others get subsidies. If free electricity for farmers is cut, then annual food cultivation decreases and food prices skyrockets.
There are still families that earn less than 10K per month. They cannot afford to pay 500+ per month. Just because they are poor doesn't mean they have to sacrifice human necessity ( yes, electricity is a human necessity)
Mobile - Not sure who gave this and why.
If you are able to defend TV then may God Bless you.
How they will fund unemployment benefits? Are you aware current unemployment rates?
How ? - Similar to how it's funded elsewhere. From your salary.
Current Unemployment Rate : Unofficially 7.45% as govt is refusing to release it
7.45% of 1.4 billion is slightly over 100 million btw. Which is an insane number in absolute terms but sounds small as a percentage
IMO Most of the time, govt(politicians) announces freebies/subsidies for votes, not for welfare.
Quality subsidized education, food , health etc are important compared to free tv, mobiles. Most of the backlash is against such freebies which makes either people lazy or introduced for wooing voters.
Make them farmers and all the other freeloaders pay taxes. Not all of them are poor. Some are just exploiting the system.
Stop giving free bikes and cycles to kids in poor states. I know workers work the whole year in the city but go back to give exams where they just pass by cheating to get a free cycle from the government. This shit is helping no one except our corrupt politicians maintain their vote banks.
Totally agree... being an indian farmer is the best job. Guaranteed price without any quality check, tax free, electricity free, . Subsidies in fertilizer..
Chronology samjho
Meanwhile u and me file ITR and watch some poor fuckers in some other random city get flooded every year.. Rinse and Repeat..
During the Karnataka election, there were literal booths set up by both parties around 500m away from the polling area. They were literally handing out money to people and asking them to vote for their candidates. I live in a posche colony and still, people were receiving bribes in public. We the people are also to blame for electing such clowns
Whatever way they are re-distributing the money - it should be in some investment form which improve life of people at whole. Such areas can be -
If the money is re-distributed as it is, I doubt it is any helpful other than stealing (taxes) and giving it to poor (freebies). Robin-hood style. While this will work good in short-term - it is not sustainable and eventually everyone will be back at square one.
Now you can use this framework to figure what kind of welfare schemes are good and which are not.
I am in favour of schemes giving free education, free food to all school childrens, free skill development centres and awareness programs. Once folks are adults - they should figure how to use their skills to live life.
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This is Scandinavian sensibility in a Low Income country.
It's scary & unfortunate that almost all state govts are giving out free money now. And most of the freebies are biased against Men
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