Kung ikaw ang ma Presidente?

[cliff_drew]

4.we could start by abolishing deped and ched. Then privatize all schools. For the poorest of the poor, they will be given vouchers so that they can choose schools to their preference. Tuition fees will rise initially but will eventually go down as more schools will open.

This one gets my attention. Privatization of schools is not a guarantee to quality education. Some graduates produced by private schools are not even the best of the best. As you can see nowadays, more and more topnotchers came from public schools/universities. If we are looking for a remedy to quality education, K-12 answers it. Of course, things are not easy as pie. But bottomline is, it is the foundation that is most important. Competition goes along if we only have good foundation. With the necessary tools, students would excel on their own way.

[emberjim]

Well thats that. Another one simply wants to hear his own. Last time i checked, this is still a forum. Reactions are a given.

It always depend on the topic. You can't simply barge in to something that doesn't require your thought about it. Especially when the thread's first paragraph ends with a question mark intended for a first person "to do's".
Unsolicited idea will definitely makes two person an irritating crowd...

[jonz]

@emow
how to change the system?

[emow]

bitaw pareng emow, isuwat sd imong plans if ikaw ang ma presidente para maka comment sad sila...

ako, if mo bali ang tuyok sa kalibutan ma presidente ko, mo focus ko sa education.

1. build schools, schools, and a lot of schools.
2. increase salary ceiling sa mga teachers para ma attractive ni na profession
3. teach kids the basics of honesty, honor and dignity.

diha ko magsugod. lisod naman gud badlungon ning current generation sa mga politician kay nangugat na. mrag "you cant teach an old dog some new trick" na idea.

ako sad ni...hehe

Im injecting my thoughts as i comment on others'. I find it easier to engage rather than posting all my thoughts in one go. To your suggestion of building schools, i would be against it. We need teachers that really teach. Government teachers spend more time picketing their complains against poor government action on their plight rather than teaching students.

On 1: Admittedly, I still have not read about the impact it has during the Reagan years. I simply can’t find the right material that my simple mind can understand. Hehehe. I think that it’s very difficult to predict whether this move would increase or decrease revenue because the effects are simply hard to measure. This opinion is based on something I read about a contrasting study asserting that heavily taxing luxury items having no long-term impact on consumer behavior. However, I acknowledge that the long-term impact (revenue-wise) is too important to go about this with a cookie-cutter approach.

As for class differentiation, I think that should be one of the main impacts of this measure. I disagree that it would diminish the standard of living of the lower and middle class because it SHOULD NOT be the standard of living for the L and M class. We see too much poor people going after things that we all know they do not need. I understand that there are very serious elitist undertones of this. But if increasing the rate of sin tax and heavily taxing luxury items would decrease the buying power of the L and M class for the things they do not need, then I can live with that.

As for underground markets, the crime of smuggling should be addressed separately, thus I did not consider that here.

Anyway, your comments made me think and I will continue to read on. I may do an about-face once I get a better understanding on this.


On 3: Let me be clear, I was not advocating the abolishment of SSS but I’m not against it either. What I was trying to say is that if we were not to abolish the SSS, then I think we should continue to improve it. Just a point of clarification though, when you said that when we implement the RH law SSS will eventually default to its promise, what exactly do you mean?


On 4 and 9: Point taken

On 1: people covet things, beautiful things and luxurious things to various degrees. It helps them establish certain levels of comfort,dignity, and pride. Heavily taxing these may harm overall prosperity, wealth that they can feel and enjoy. And it will have many unintended economic consequences. If luxurious items become too artificially expennsive, companies, manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of raw materials will be negatively affected thus increasing unemployment.
On 3. I got you correctly. But i would prefer we abolish SSS. The SSS funds to pay retirees' pensions are paid the members. As we promote rh, the members of SSS will eventually thin out and be unable to sustain the pensions of future retirees. Plus, add inflation to the problem.

This one gets my attention. Privatization of schools is not a guarantee to quality education. Some graduates produced by private schools are not even the best of the best. As you can see nowadays, more and more topnotchers came from public schools/universities. If we are looking for a remedy to quality education, K-12 answers it. Of course, things are not easy as pie. But bottomline is, it is the foundation that is most important. Competition goes along if we only have good foundation. With the necessary tools, students would excel on their own way.

Competition guarantees that good schools must improve to stay on the market while bad schools will close because they wont have enrollees. On average, students on private schools outperform students from public schools. There are exceptions but not the trend. Government is the worst thing in our education system. They dont give a damn about education. For them, a student inside an infrastructure named school is already nameworthy of education. K-12 doesnt answer anything. It presents as an improvement but it's just adding number to years. What i am suggesting to have a myriad of school models, and let the parents choose the model they think woild benefit their children the most.

It always depend on the topic. You can't simply barge in to something that doesn't require your thought about it. Especially when the thread's first paragraph ends with a question mark intended for a first person "to do's".
Unsolicited idea will definitely makes two person an irritating crowd...

Every reaction is unsolicited. Stating the obvious has been your talent? You already made it clear, you dont want any comments on your post. So be it.

@emow
how to change the system?

a.one term limits for all electable and appointable positions, including judiciary. This will destroy dynasties that have long festered our political system. Politicos will not be playing their positions for the hopes of reelection.
b. Government people should be banned from endorsing products, businesses.
c. Government legislation will be limited and clearly defined.
d. Flat tax rate. 12-20%.
E. Death penalty.
F. Eliminate useless laws, Goccs, Deped, dpwh,dost,denr,doa,dswd, etc, leaving dnd,doj,pagasa,doe... the responsibilities left by eliminated agencies will be covered by LGUs.
G. The money saved from eliminated agencies and goccs will be used to modernize and improve our army, navy, and airforce.
H. Deregulate markets, and lower import costs and barriers.
I. Taper off welfare programs such as sss, phil health, pagibig.
J. Illegalized PPP.

To summarize, i want a small, limited government.

[redemption32]

a.one term limits for all electable and appointable positions, including judiciary. This will destroy dynasties that have long festered our political system. Politicos will not be playing their positions for the hopes of reelection.
b. Government people should be banned from endorsing products, businesses.
c. Government legislation will be limited and clearly defined.
d. Flat tax rate. 12-20%.
E. Death penalty.
F. Eliminate useless laws, Goccs, Deped, dpwh,dost,denr,doa,dswd, etc, leaving dnd,doj,pagasa,doe... the responsibilities left by eliminated agencies will be covered by LGUs.
G. The money saved from eliminated agencies and goccs will be used to modernize and improve our army, navy, and airforce.
H. Deregulate markets, and lower import costs and barriers.
I. Taper off welfare programs such as sss, phil health, pagibig.
J. Illegalized PPP.

To summarize, i want a small, limited government.

I'm with you on almost all of these except for the death penalty.

[emberjim]

Every reaction is unsolicited. Stating the obvious has been your talent? You already made it clear, you dont want any comments on your post. So be it.

And still you did... Bitaw brod wa pa ko sa mood krong panahona... catch me later... Peace...

[luff101]

Kung ako ma presidente kurakoton ko na inyo mga buhis.. hahaha

[emailroy2002]

kung ako ma presidente naa na koy mga 10 billyon hahahaa!

[jonz]

a.one term limits for all electable and appointable positions, including judiciary. This will destroy dynasties that have long festered our political system. Politicos will not be playing their positions for the hopes of reelection.
--sakto dydka sir, ngkalata ang political dynasties sa atong nasod, hinaot lang unta ang mo uli gkan sa lahi nga partido, ipadayong
ang nasugdan nga kaayohan sa unang nag lingkod sa pwesto.. naa dydko nabatyagan nga proyekto sa mayor kani-adto, nhuman ang termino niya, wala panhuman ang proyekto, pag lingkod sa sunod mayor, wala napadayon ang pag pa tukod sa stablisemento, na usik lang ang kwarta sa katawhan nga nag bayad ug buhis..

b. Government people should be banned from endorsing products, businesses.
--agree dydko ani,
c. Government legislation will be limited and clearly defined.
--kani sd para klaro dyd, walay mag simang2x

d. Flat tax rate. 12-20%.
--agree sdko ani, mas hapsay ni, mas dali ang pag compute.walay daghan nga kus2x balongos..

E. Death penalty.
--yes, para maminusan ang sobra kadaghan nga mga piniriso, dapat walay pilinoon dato ug pobre.

F. Eliminate useless laws, Goccs, Deped, dpwh,dost,denr,doa,dswd, etc, leaving dnd,doj,pagasa,doe... the responsibilities left by eliminated agencies will be covered by LGUs.
--bitaw sir sakto ka. daghan na kaaug mga tao.. over manpowered and gobyerno yet dili lantaran ang tarong nga serbisyo

G. The money saved from eliminated agencies and goccs will be used to modernize and improve our army, navy, and airforce.
--yes, para dili nata hulgaon sa lain nasod, para respitoon nata, sauna bitaw tiger of asia ang atong nasod

H. Deregulate markets, and lower import costs and barriers.
--kung ingun ta nga computerize ang customs, o modernize sa xray, padayon ghapon ang korupsyon dha..
mas maayo cgro 3rd party operation and IT driver system, computer na, minus na ang tao, para minus ang korakot sa sulod

I. Taper off welfare programs such as sss, phil health, pagibig.
--mao dyd sir, ky sa kani service department sa gobyerno, ubay2x sd ug sulbaronon nga problema dri.. murag daghan wala
kauyon sa serbisyo nga ghatag ani nga departamento

J. Illegalized PPP.

[Romeojin]

Tarongon tikag tubag, way bugal2x.
1. Government business do not exist for profit. They exist to serve the public. Their operations drain tax coffers without replenishing anything productive. Most GOCCs are running on the red. If you take time to observe these goccs, the people are not as driven as private businesses. You may artificially lower the prices, but it still must be paid indirectly thru taxes. MRT is a good example. Subsidized fee, no profit, no maintenance, bad service. If it is totally run by private business, the management will be in hot water and fired on the spot. But not in GOCCs. Have you gone thru GOCCs? Compare the overall attitude and performance with their private counter parts. And.. only market competition reduce prices.

Depends on what government.. A good example of profitability of GOCCs is the Chinese government, their state owned companies makes an average of $160B annually. this year they are on the roll, over $200B profit.
Profit growth at Chinese state firms accelerates in H1 | Reuters
Thats 4 times our national budget. The drawbacks for China's success is that they dont remit that much to their govt coffers, thereby their GOCC grows even biggger and another drawback is that their GOCC is one of the biggest conduit of corruption.

Taking these into account minus the negative effects. dont you think na we can further service our welfare department, improve our national defense, improve our education systems etc; if our govt had access to profitable GOCCs money ?

Govt should work more than relying on people taxes (even now BIR is looking for more taxable income). Beside we are limiting foreign investment why not let the govt take over key industries and power sector, invest on mining and oil exploration, or even invest abroad (like China is doing in the field of mining, agriculture, finances), even China build ghost city thats how much money they got. We relied too much and protect the oligarchs, two people of this country owns significant amount of our national GDP.

enough of those Penoy BS like govt cant make it profitable thats why he is pursuing privatization, hes doing that so that the oligarchs would reap profits; GOCCs need to be spearheaded by brilliant minds... theres no chance in doing so if the govt lower their salary and take away their incentives and bonuses, like what Penoy is doing.


Thereby my second suggestion... is to improve our GOCCs, and then use the profit to augment the national budget and improve further the GOCCs.