[Oyk]

Authority should implement heavy profit and sale tax on kopitiam foodcourt and food establishment to safeguard food prices from undue increase because these speculators are driving up burden on households expenses

They will pass the tax to consumers.

People who have money own properties.  They collect rent.

People who have no money cannot afford to buy, so they rent, and pay exorbitant rent.  They slog and slog to earn enough to pay rent, and have to charge higher prices when rental increased.

If you have capital, you are known as a capitalist's.  With capital, you become a landowner.

This is how Mao Tse Tung came to power.  Over 90% of the Chinese slogged and slogged, rain or shine, while the landowners ate good food, drank good wine, and had lots of women.

REIT and mall ownership of whatever form....are we not reverting to the old days of China?