Many of my friends may not agree with me but this is a hard truth that we pay our taxes when no way is left with us to evade taxes after taking advantage of all tax saving schemes sometimes utilizing some fake bills also. Anyway, despite this, today govenrment’s tax collection is very good and getting better with the boom in economy and consumption.

By writing the above notes, I want to attract the attention of my friends towards the fact that whatever is the way, either our compulsion or by choice, we pay a healthy amount of taxes every year for nation’s growth.

At the same time it is a well known truth that money collected as taxes by our government is hardly getting utilized for our welfare in the form of rail, road, airports infrastructure, education or health sector because all sectors are in bad shape.

Then where does this money goes at all? A layman’s answer is corruption and that is true up to some extent. Corruption is a hidden phenomenon and has become an acceptable disease worldwide.

In addition to corruption, one more surprising disease I want to bring to your notice is the business of votes utilizing our taxes has increased in past 20 years. I would cite three examples to explain this:

1. Two years back in Tamilnadu, different schemes were announced by politicians if they voted to power in state elections. One scheme was distribution of free TV sets to the people which is getting implemented these days with huge expenditure of public money collected as taxes. Isn’t it a direct purchase of votes to enhance the personal political business at the behest of our money paid as taxes when other sectors like roads, electricity, health and education are in bad shape.
2. About 15 years back in Haryana, local bank’s loan waiver was announced and done. That money was paid somewhere from the tax collections itself. That was a fine example of direct purchase of votes by public money and do political business.
3. About 7 years back in Punjab, free electricity to farmers was announced and done. Again, the political business at our cost.

An interesting fact from the above three examples is that,  in all cases the politicians won with a thumping majority who announced these schemes and did good political business next five years.

Not the last one but the latest by our dear Manmohan Singh and Madam Sonia duo from central government is the ‘rural rojgar guarantee bill’ where multi million crores are getting wasted and our highways are waiting for funds. One more project still hanging in Supreme Court, dearest to our dear and long living Arjun Singh is the OBC quota bill, where trio(mms, sg & as) are committed to spend multi million crores to increase the seats for Quota students. This is the direct purchase of votes for forthcoming elections.

All of us know this but my basic purpose to post this blog is to provoke the reader  to become a vote bank and put a brave resistance to such kind of politics. In addition to taxes, we need to pay our votes also and get something done for our interests. I am doing something on this. To get the complete idea, please do read my other blogs and if you find the idea ok then revert back to me with your comments.

At last one quote from me. Please think it over. “For most of us, tax is our compulsion, hence we give it. Vote is our choice, hence we hardly give it”.