A few PAP won narrowly, I think they felt the tight slap, although I don't know why some slaps landed on those that are quite on the ball but others who I think are disappointing got away with high percentage.
GST: It was increased to 9% at that Covid time simply because LHL is retiring and this is a necessary increase he doesn't want to leave to suffered by Wong and his team, backfired obviously. And we do get GST vouchers and many subsidies, especially medical. I don't lie, I know because we received them (no choice, family situation), were even on medifund (got approved with just 1 15min interview with social workers) at 1 time, fully subsidised for more than a year (re-interview half-yearly, if I remember correctly). So don't believe sob stories of no help for medical care in SG.
NTUC sage: Nobody understood the implications until people who understood made noise. Until now I still cannot understand it. Even oppies didn't understand it but only went with the noise, just happened to score lottery with that. Well, it was stopped immediately once understood. It's actually quite normal for such situation to happen in the world.