An Indian Socialist FAQ

Large portion of the upper-middle class of India call themselves "tax payers" and think their money runs the country. As we will see, this is nothing but narcissistic bullshit. "Their" money is NOT running the country. - income tax is only one type of tax in the income of central govt - indirect taxes (GST) are a major portion of Central Government Income, which is mainly paid by poor of India - Direct Tax is only 47% of Total Tax; Direct Tax is only 6% of GDP - govt steals money and resources of the nation, funnelling it to Adani-Ambanis; This trickles down to the upper classes; A portion of this is what comes up as "Income Tax" - consumption pattern of the upper-class only serves import, not labor intensive industries; hence increasing income of upper class is not beneficial to the development of India -  Sources: Number of Crorepatis Up, But Mixed Bag on Direct Tax Front, New I-T Data Shows - Article GST Has Increased India's Reliance on Indirect Ta...

- Income levels are falling, even when they say electricity, gas, roads, toilets are being built - proportion of rural malnutrition has increased - Government is manipulating economic data - No data on Covid deaths, Migrant labor - National Statistical Office experts are fired - International Institute of Population Studies report contradicts Govt. data on open defecation, etc... - Growth rate is irrelevant because there is very high Inflation. RBI has said "inflation is high" - Deteriorating in Global Hunger Index; criticisms of "faulty methodology" are not correct; Govt. extending free Rations for 82 crore people for 5 years proves there is a "situation" - In last budget, we see that allocated fund for MNREGA was used up in first 6 months; there is a feeling of hopelessness; Govt. trying to filter down MNREGA recipients using Bureaucratic hurdles like Aadhar-linking, etc... - India has one of the highest youth unemployment in the world, at 24%; we are al...

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