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All along I have been quite against Spore MIW to impose GST on everything. Essentials like cooking oil, rice etc should be exempted as they are necessities isn't it? By imposing GST on them you are making life very hard as those are essentials to even poor ppl unless they don't need to eat. In contrast in Msia forum I read their govt do not impose GST on essentials and that is good for the ppl.

GST or TAX per se is clearly used to discourage purchases and with the Govt imposing GST on everything makes no sense. Will MP Ong YK say his SUgar Tax is not to discourage sugar intake??