Instead of raising GST, foreigners should pay up their fair share of property taxes locally.

Instead of raising GST, foreigners should pay up their fair share of property taxes locally.

Singaporeans who serve NS defend the land and thus should be the ONLY ones enjoying discounted rate residential property taxes (for their living premises only). Foreigners who DO NOT serve NS should have to pay non-discounted, aka current 'Non-Owner-Occupied Residential Properties' rate taxes.

Better still, all residential properties should be made to pay similar tax rates across the board with Singaporeans and PR (especially those who have served NS) receiving property tax vouchers for the offset of a certain median amount payable in property tax (as recognition for defending the land and also ease of calculation of property tax):

Edz Ello is 50% right: LKY has given up, Sinkies will be extinct (by sloth (lack of exercise)/ greed).

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Yes, Edz is WRONG to curse Singapore with natural disasters. But about the losers (?poor health?) part, I cannot help but agree somewhat that in so far that the godfather of Singapore says:
"One Man's View of the World" he (Lee Kuan Yew) has said "I cannot solve the problem, and I have given up. I have given the job to another generation of leaders. Hopefully, they or their successors will eventually find a way out." Singapore Dissident: Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew admits defeat on falling birth rate

One third of Singapore students have no pocket $$$ for lunch.

Guess that is all worth it so long as the dignity of CEOs and Ministars is upheld... The seeds of Singapore's own umbrella movement are now being sown...

"About a third of our students go to school with no pocket money to buy lunch. ....the president of one of our universities told us recently that 60 per cent of his students need financial assistance.... - See more at: Three wishes for the New Year - Opinion By Invitation ST Editorial - The Straits Times "