Cigarettes Price Go Up (Again)

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/budget-2023-smoking-becomes-more-expensive-govt-raises-tobacco-tax

Last year one carton of L&M Blue is S$114 at Sheng Siong, S$11.40 for one pack.

After that they increase to S$121, S$12.10 for one pack. (+6.14%)

Then after the budget 2023 announcement, today I bought at S$138, S$13.80 for one pack. (+14.04%)

"The increase in excise duty for all tobacco products is expected to generate about $100 million in additional revenue a year, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, who delivered the Budget on Tuesday."

At least this guy is honest about it, because if government really care so much about our health they might as well just ban tobacco, they don't because it is an income stream.

Another S$100m in revenue, not sure how helpful it is if the various government organisations are wasting funds every year, it's like buying heroin for heroin addicts, left pocket in right pocket out to feed the addicts, and then later say not enough money, then need to raise this raise that.

If you look at some of the IT projects our government is churning out, they are pretty garbage and bring no value to the average folk and yet the average folk has to pay for it. Like Healthhub for example, probably not cheap to maintain, but people hardly use it or even know the system exists, clinic info on it is also outdated, might as well just google also more accurate.

Then there is the CDC voucher system, seriously why not just credit the money into our bank accounts, why create a system just for this, I find it a complete waste of public funds, zero added value but so inconvenient to use, don't know which scholar thought of this for his/her KPI, what a stupid idea.


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