
Originally Posted by
redemption32
apil2 lang tah.. hehehe
1. Triple the existing Sin Tax Rate. Use the Sin Tax income to supplement the budget intended for health care and health care research and also to improve the health care facilities at the local government unit.
2. Explore the use of alternative sources of energy. Implement it for government unit first: government offices, government personnel vehicles, etc. Test and evaluate. Check the Cost Benefit Analysis. Modify weaknesses if necessary. Expand its use if possible. Do not rush its expansion if not necessary. Income generated from Big Oil still matters. Just create a solid groundwork for its use.
3. Put an end to handouts or “cash gifts” of all kind, e.g. government employee cash gifts, senior citizen cash gifts, etc. Channel the fund to improve social security. Channel cash gifts for government employees to more sustainable projects, e.g. low-cost housing, scholarships for dependents and improved health care plan.
4. Work with the biggest of the big business and the richest of the rich people in the country to improve educational system. Offer reasonable tax breaks. Improve and add school facilities. Re-evaluate present teaching and non-teaching personnel. Implement salary increase for teachers based on merit and not seniority or length of service. Work with education department on “catch-up” plan for teachers evaluated to be under par.
5. Offer reduced sentence (not pardon, never pardon) for politicians convicted of graft and corruption in exchange for returning whatever amount they stole. % of years reduced should be proportional to the % of money they stole.
6. Assign a taskforce to evaluate the nonviolent offenders in our prison systems. Release them on parole (based on certain requirements such as good behavior, consistent no rules broken, etc.) Offer reduced sentence in exchange for community service and then be done with them.
7. Re-evaluate the age qualification for government posts. This country is being run by old men and look where it got us. Time to give the younger generation a chance.
8. Prohibit all lump-sum disbursements for members of congress and the senate. Create a taskforce to evaluate and re-evaluate all line projects in the budget, e.g. roads and bridges going to nowhere, etc.
9. Work with the local government unit on how to improve the traffic system for every major cities. Explore options that do not cost a lot of money. Explore manpower intervention and strong enforcement of rules to ease traffic instead of investing billions. Only explore road widening for the most urgent area.