econcon

Money and Violence dictates who controls resources hence power. So, companies controlling government is no surprise.

Wages do not matter anymore, i've seen guys making 300K+ a year struggling to get women interested in them.

Also, if you want to lose all your assets - only then lead with your wallet.

They all just write code, imho - software guys are considered very low status and have no pull compared to other professions like doctor, lawyers - i never seen a woman being excited about a programmer haha.

We had that problem in barebones WP with no plugins at all.

Once we installed a few security plugins, it worked out just fine!

unless you collude with other companies, doesn't seem like it is.

Cycling power does same

I read it as perlite, the volcanic foam

This is good atleast now Indians will stay in India and develop our country instead of going to the US and contributing to a country which is already ahead in everyway.

>The (income) tax base in India is about 5%; they have no voice in the politics of the country unless they are big corps.

Excise on petroleum import affects nearly everyone. I am not only talking about income tax.

Other than this, the soap or detergent or even everyday products we use, contain imported active ingredients and they are taxed at some duty which brings up its price, manufacturer simply adds their own profit margin on top of their costs and passed it onto customers.

Even if most in India have never made payment to customs department, they've still paid considerable sum as indirect duty charged included into product pricing.

If you can just show it to people how much cheaper things will get, they'll give you a chance. This is because Indian voter is very unsophisticated, he will buy your promise atleast once to see if you can really help them by reducing prices.

>Excessive taxation on luxury goods is one of the few ways we can still milk the rich

You'll be able to milk rich if there are more mercedes on road, they'll need more repairmen or mechanics, you can be one and charge them for everything.

Right now in India, ultra rich proportionally pay less taxes because of various instruments available to them which aren't feasible to be used by middle class people.

We should shift our focus and let them spend their money, it will end up in one of the countrymen's pocket either way.

>As stated in another comment, most of the income taxes / import taxes etc affect a tiny fraction of the population. Not really a huge voter base there. Influential and disproportionately powerful - but not enough to swing elections I think

How can this be true? Nearly everyone needs petrol or diesel or gas, and government has increased exise duty on petroleum import which affects almost everyone in the country!

And custom duties also affect others, today if you go to buy a tool - you'll either find Chinese import or some very expensive foreign make tool or crap Indian make tool in most of the case. People need those tools, they'll benefit from low import duties.

Yes but most people aren't aware how taxes affect them even if they aren't directly paying any custom duty or income tax, custom duty is being charged to them indirectly (they pay for a product where the importer adjusts the price according to costs of which custom duty is a part)