(27-06-2024, 03:29 PM)[[ForeverAlone]] Wrote: Rich family can buy another HDB flat now single also can buy.
One unfair things is
For an example two families
Both have lots of bro and sister
That rich family their kids each one buy their own HDB flat indirect they every one for their own CDC voucher
Whereas that poor family also have lots of kids only get one set of CDC voucher
Summary a lot govt policy so call help the “ the ppl “ indirectly benefit A lot for the rich
Also rich got tax rebate this is why if you wanna benefit a lot from govt is better to be rich than poor .
Thus this is why so call SG most expensive city.
One more thing CDC voucher is to help business owners benefits not you the consumer so call “ save money “ help your needs.
Remember in the first place why Govt come out CDC voucher during Covi19 period , is to help business owners to have business as consumers will buy in return so call workers job is safe boss will not close shop but isn’t so .
End of the day business owners benefit but is not so call safeguard their workers job either
While technically true, the impact of such a thing happening is minimal. Firstly I'm not sure how many rich man son / daughter single is going to buy a BTO in the first place, doesn't sound like a thing that will be prevalent enough to cause a societal impact anyway.
Secondly both rich and poor singles will get the CDC vouchers as long as they form their own households, you can hardly call this rich people "getting more". Of course you can argue that the government ought to do means testing on income, net worth etc. so that rich singles don't get CDC, but surely the cost of administering something like that significantly outweighs whatever paltry amounts 2nd generation rich singles get from CDC?
As for the tax rebates, they are capped to a very low amount and are mainly for the benefit of middle lower income people where the impact is most felt. The rich people sure as hell are not going to give two hoots over an amount that is not even enough to pay for their dinner. Again you can argue that government ought to differentiate at a granular level to ensure the rich people don't get a $200 tax rebate, but I really don't think this is worth the cost in terms of ease of administering and communications complexity.
There are certainly areas for critique in some government policies especially when it comes to narrowing rich poor divide, but the examples you cited are all the low impact kind which is likely purposely adopted to ensure smoother implementation and reduce communication complexity.
As for the CDC vouchers, the normal ones helps both small business owners and regular consumers so I'm sort of ok with the policy. However the groceries ones seem to be benefiting consumers and only large supermarket operators like NTUC, SS, DFI so I'm not sure if money is being efficiently deployed in this manner.