UPA’s plan for minorities: we will fix govt spending as per their population share (Indian Express)
Whoever came up with this idiocy needs serious IQ injections.
Why is the Government obsessed with dividing Indians through rigid quotas -- instead of seeing them as one people with similar development needs?
Besides, this lunacy will require its own monitoring bureaucracy. How much more babudom can India take?
Fareed Zakaria observes the Indian state is failing badly, our society succeeding nevertheless. With Indians trapped between the bigotry of the religious-right and the divisiveness of the secular-left, how long before the society gets dragged back in the mire it's desperately trying to emerge from?
Somehow, someway, our broken dysfuctional political structure has to be broken up.
How?
Saturday, January 07, 2006
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5 comments:
First, start calling a spade a spade. This is hare brained scheme of the Congress.
Second, we are setting the stage for a second partition. This time it will be even more bloodier than the first.
Finally, if sense needs to prevail, we need a new political party. It is us who are needed. If not us, then who?
Jaffna, best wishes for Makara Sakranti. Do you guys fly kites during the festival?
jaffna seems the issue is with the executive and not as much with the legislature. I'm not sure constitutional amendments will solve the problem.
zakaria's observation is very perceptive.
apollo: regarding devoltion of power to local government, it boils down to a simple question of money. Indian citizens only have a central (federal) tax - no state tax, and now, a VAT to simplify sales tax. If local governments have no independent sources of "revenue" (all tax is stealing in my opinion), they will be incapable of planning and executing infrastructure and investment projects.
apollo I cannot agree more with the objective. I'm just having difficulty seeing how local governments will raise the money needed.
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