Thats what I am saying. Giving up lpg subsidy would hit you by only 2200 per month which if you earn >10lpa is nothing. Also, I can't dictate you how spend your personal income but how can a person spend so frivolously when his own compatriot is dying out of sheer hunger? I thought India is the birthplace of saints like Buddha , who gave up his riches looking at the grave condition of poor.
The value of 2200 Rupees is something you would understand when you start working yourself instead of living of your parents.
It doesn't matter how much you earn, you are not getting it for free. you have to put your time and effort to earn that money. Whether you are a daily wage worker or a business man on the scale of Ambani.
That is why whether you spend it for yourself or give it for others, you make sure that value is derived out of it. That is why I said that you don't understand the value of money and the toil of the people to earn their living
I also have asked you several times, who is the gas subsidy benefiting. I already told you that most people who can afford gas @ 450 per cylinder typically have enough incomes that they should be paying taxes (at least in the 10% category). Taxes are meant to be spent for the tax payers (spending for any other cause is secondary), so it makes complete sense if tax payers get that benefit. It also makes sense if people who are too poor to even have a taxable income get it at even less cost of Rs 50 or 100 with max limit. Tell me one damn reason why tax evaders should get it? Why should a taxi driver with 15~20 Lac income and doesn't pay taxes gets it and a IT employee with 10 Lac income doesn't just because his income is under the IT radar?
Further, you do acknowledge the fact that your view on taxes is narrow and selfish one.
And what is you view on taxes? That only 3% of the population keep paying taxes at 20% and 30% while not getting anything in return while the rest evade them and still enjoy all the benefits? Do you think there should be some measures to prevent this?
Finally, when the government has woken up, you are terming the reduction of subsidy leakages as a scam! Tell me, what do you propose the government should do in the short term to ease the exchequer and also uplift the poor? They have devised the mechanisms like DBT and linking it with AADHAR card for eliminating pilferage only! Why are you being so pessimistic?
The only people that can be deemed eligible to get benefits on taxes are the tax payers and people who are too poor to be paying taxes at all and neither of them are getting the benefits. Tax dodgers and black marketeers are the only ones getting subsidies after this move. The point you are are repeatedly and conveniently ignoring is that nobody is against the removal of subsidies for people with 10 Lac income, but that the tax payer is being forced to buy at vastly inflated rates (not at standard market rates) while tax dodgers are being rewarded with subsidies.
Also, people have poured out that they work hard and have five houses and what not. Let me assure you that it is impossible to amass so much wealth in our country with 100% white money. So all those claims are bull crap! I am sure that not all of "them" pay 100% of tax they ought to! They all save/hide tax one way or the other. So the false claims of being righteous is a pool of putrid crap! And that's the reason i am calling them hypocrites!
Which is where accountability comes into the picture. Make everyone who is liable to pay taxes pay them? Don't take taxes from only a few people and then rewards tax dodgers with benefits from it. As I already said, unlike me, a lot of people don't pay taxes honestly. While I pay more than I need to (due to not claiming some exemptions), there are people in my income level that pay only a third of what I pay eve if TDS. But they are at least paying something unlike a cab driver for instance who earns substantially, doesn't pay a dime in tax and still gets various benefits on tax money paid by others.