வாடும் மக்கள், வளரும் பெருமுதலாளிகள்!

இந்தியா ஏழை நாடு, ஆனால், ஏழைகளுக்கான நாடு அல்ல என்பது மீண்டும், மீண்டும் ஆட்சியாளர்கள் மூலம் நிரூபணமாகிறது.

- பரிதி பாலன்

Our rulers are the ones who used to say 'Tax... Interest... Screen... Kisti...' towards foreign imperialism . But now people have to look at them and speak that verse.

The reason is that the poor have been hit hard by the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

In this context, Oxfam has published a report on India's inequality at all levels.

According to this report, almost two-thirds of the total GST tax collection i.e. 64.3 percent tax comes from the bottom 50% of the total population.

A third of the GST tax is collected from the 40 percent of the population who belong to the middle class. At the same time, only 3-4% GST is collected from the richest 10%.

The problem is that the total T number of billionaires in India has increased from 102 in 2020 to 166 billionaires in 2022. The total wealth of India's 100 richest people is $660 billion (54.12 lakh crore). It is the amount that can finance the entire Union Budget.