18th Feb 2015
Can I do it? Can we do it ? ?? Yes I probably can and we certainly can...
Sangita wrote y'day her thought responding to my view on "my country.. Whose responsibility it is anyway'.She agreed with me but has a grievance about freebies and tax collection system application in our country. With due respect to her point I feel its worth giving the issue a deeper thought and discuss it further to analyse what the real situation is and what we need to know,consider,change and do about it.Here goes my thought. Yes ,we the so called middle class generally have a grievance of paying taxes truthfully and the lower and higher economy order just escape. Our list of grievances just does not stop there.when our children don't get a seat by competition we conveniently blame the reservation system, when we get a transfer we get up to fight against discrimination, when we don't get jobs,we think our talent is a waste in this country and the degrees we have acquired with our sweat and turmoil is not recognized... And the endless list goes on..Saying yes to all this which might have been my grievances as well till few years back,but today I will prefer to think,analyse,act and promote slightly differently because I learnt whatever little we see and think are certainly true but not the whole truth and we really don't stand up and do the right thing when they confront us,our comfort and safety. Most of us really don't have the courage to stand to the reality so why not feel blessed in the given situation if we can't take the risks associated with the change we want to bring and really stand up to our conviction even when things don't favor us !
Often we travel long to perform duties and at times get difficult situations to deal with and we get frustrated and more so when someone gets favour not to travel and perform such duty.But when i look around I see the station is full of desperate youths standing in line for not less than 5 hours and I don't know in how many multiples of the few seats available in the general compartment to get in. I think of them,my frustration turns to a blessing and grievances of an honest tax payer turns to gratitude of getting a decent berth while million s of country men can not afford to buy a second class ticket in a train for 40 hrs journey and stand and squeeze and not having scope for even nature's call ! Really a scene which can move anyone! Are all these youth not talented to be educated enough or earn enough to stay in a 2 room house, have enough to pay for basic needs of life ? Will I or will we not want a decent life,clean air,water,basic education for our children and other fellow Indians ? For that u and I need to contribute and the most logical way is various tax structure. So we should feel good about paying taxes honestly as others have contributed so much sacrifices for our upbringing, our education, the decent lifestyle we have and the money we proudly earn. Is it all ours only ? I am sure not. The lady who works for me at home,the workers who help to run our institutions, collect our garbage are not less important and deserve equal opportunity like us to be eligible to be tax payer...Coming to high economic segment, we don't exactly have economic knowledge to assess their tax. But if at all they are evading tax why the middle class not exposing them ? How many of us stand by someone who dares to take on that ? How many of will contribute for clean politics and governance and really have the guts to stand up to take the step at least on personal level? Let us not bribe someone to get undue things done for selfish motives even knowing the deserving ones are left.Let us fund political movements by voting right people and small little contributions of few thousand rupees which is white and gives us legitimate rights to ask why they resort to corruption and all back channel routes .Till then let's be happy with God's grace for the honest lot,contribute a bit of reverence to the vast majority of less fortunate ones and building and supporting a legacy of honesty,efficacy and non corruption. I am sure they are the different angles of the same agenda... Together we can.. Let's try...
Often we travel long to perform duties and at times get difficult situations to deal with and we get frustrated and more so when someone gets favour not to travel and perform such duty.But when i look around I see the station is full of desperate youths standing in line for not less than 5 hours and I don't know in how many multiples of the few seats available in the general compartment to get in. I think of them,my frustration turns to a blessing and grievances of an honest tax payer turns to gratitude of getting a decent berth while million s of country men can not afford to buy a second class ticket in a train for 40 hrs journey and stand and squeeze and not having scope for even nature's call ! Really a scene which can move anyone! Are all these youth not talented to be educated enough or earn enough to stay in a 2 room house, have enough to pay for basic needs of life ? Will I or will we not want a decent life,clean air,water,basic education for our children and other fellow Indians ? For that u and I need to contribute and the most logical way is various tax structure. So we should feel good about paying taxes honestly as others have contributed so much sacrifices for our upbringing, our education, the decent lifestyle we have and the money we proudly earn. Is it all ours only ? I am sure not. The lady who works for me at home,the workers who help to run our institutions, collect our garbage are not less important and deserve equal opportunity like us to be eligible to be tax payer...Coming to high economic segment, we don't exactly have economic knowledge to assess their tax. But if at all they are evading tax why the middle class not exposing them ? How many of us stand by someone who dares to take on that ? How many of will contribute for clean politics and governance and really have the guts to stand up to take the step at least on personal level? Let us not bribe someone to get undue things done for selfish motives even knowing the deserving ones are left.Let us fund political movements by voting right people and small little contributions of few thousand rupees which is white and gives us legitimate rights to ask why they resort to corruption and all back channel routes .Till then let's be happy with God's grace for the honest lot,contribute a bit of reverence to the vast majority of less fortunate ones and building and supporting a legacy of honesty,efficacy and non corruption. I am sure they are the different angles of the same agenda... Together we can.. Let's try...
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