People's bias toward Mayavati v/s Akhilesh Yadav

For last one month I am seeing 8 LCD screens 4 on each pillar at UP Gate on NH-24. Each LCD must have costed 50,000 rupee so money spent on these LCD screen is at least 4 Lakhs. These LCD screens are being used to show UP's CM Akhilesh Yadav's photo. Mayavati on the other hand constructed her status at some places in UP.

In last one month I have not heard even a single person calling Akhilesh Yadav self-centered and criticizing waste of money by Akhilesh Yadav. I know people who used to take out at least half an hour daily to criticize Mayavati for her self-centered attitude and waste of money on statues (not only Mayavati's but B. R. Ambedkar also). These people are surprisingly silent about waste of money by Akhilesh Yadav. Does it have something to do with fact that Mayavati is a Dalit and Akhilesh Yadav is an Upper caste? I think that caste of Akhilesh Yadav and Mayavati and people's reaction are related. If it is so then why should I expect Dalit's not have bias towards Mayavati when upper caste people are having bias against Mayavati? 

Mandir and Amir Khan's followers

Yesterday some people came to my house to give invitation of Maha Shivratri festival celebration in our society temple. I was very happy to see that Maha Shivrati is being celebrated in our society temple. I also contributed 500 rupee for the celebration expanses. Some Amir Khan's followers who have watched his movie PK says that I should not be going to temple and should not contribute for temple expanses. I don't care if Amir Khan's followers call me a villain for contributing for temple expenses. I feel that God have given me everything which I have in my life and I should be more than happy to offer something out of so many things received from God for service of God. I have very high respect for the people going door to door and inviting people for celebration and collecting funds for the celebration. I myself can't do that but at least contribute by making monitory contribution.

BJP's humiliating defeat in Delhi Elections

Yesterday Delhi Assembly Election's results were announced and BJP faced a humiliating defeat by winning only 3 seats out of 70 seats. Aam Admi Party secured a win by winning 67 seats out of 70 seats. Aam Admi Party's win is being celebrated in Pakistan more than it is being celebrated, I don't understand why Pakistani people are so happy about corruption being removed from India? Anyway I don't want to discuss that in this post.

What I want to discuss in this post is reason of BJP's humiliating defeat. I have observed over last 9 months of Modi's rule is that media is trying to project that BJP and India is created by Narender Modi and BJP exist because of Narender Modi. I don't know if it is being done on instruction of Narender Modi or at instruction of opponents of BJP. All congress leaders who used to say that they are not opposed to BJP but opposed to Narender Modi are now saying that they support Narender Modi and opposes BJP. These kinds of statements are taken to heart by Narender Modi and he has started thinking that BJP exist because of him and he started neglecting BJP workers and other BJP leaders.

The truth is other way around. Narender Modi is because of BJP and BJP is not because of Narender Modi. Narender Modi was made Prime Minister because of over one crore party workers of the BJP who have a common ideology, a common belief in values. Modi was chosen a leader because he strongly identified with common ideology of the BJP party.

Now Narender Modi  is behaving in high headed manner and neglected Delhi's local party workers and local leaders in assembly polls. Popular leaders like Harshverdhan were marginalized and an external person Kiran Bedi was projected as CM candidate. This thing did not get well with BJP workers and BJP worker felt insulted and demoralized. Narender Modi thought that he is the one who is winning election for BJP and he can put anybody as CM and people will vote for him. Narender Modi repeated same mistake which was done by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Atal Bihari Vajpayee in height of his arrogance removed Kalyan Singh the popular CM of Uttar Pradesh and replaced him with his sycophant Lalji Tandon because he think that people will accept whoever Vajpayee will put. Now you know that BJP have not come to power for 20 years in UP.

I hope that after this humiliating defeat Narender Modi will get back to scenes and realize his mistake instead of blaming others. Today what I am seeing that on facebook people gone ahead to the extent of blaming public of Delhi and not ready to talk about real reason of BJP's defeat that is arrogance of Narender Modi.      

Female foeticide and Govenment advertisement for promoting abortion

Now a day I am seeing a new advertisement by government of India which is promoting people to get their unborn child aborted in government recognized health centers. This advertisement is promoting killing of unborn babies in name of population control.  If killing can be considered an acceptable way of controlling population then government should allow and promote killing of non performing population of India. Government should allow killing of old and sick people to remove liability of the nation rather than killing unborn babies.

Today killing of unborn babies is allowed if it is done in first three months of pregnancy. It is not only allowed but being encouraged by government advertisement of abortion. By viewing this advertisement people think that they deserve a bravery medal for killing their unborn child. At the same time government is running another campaign to save unborn girl child from getting killed by their parents. These two campaigns don't go together. In one case you are saying that killing an unborn baby deserves a bravery medal and in another case you are saying that killing unborn girl child is crime and a person doing it should be hanged.

This is not something which I would expect from a prime minister like Narender Modi but problem is not only with Narender Modi or BJP. The problem lies with all parties, Arvind Kejriwal who have problem with each and everything which BJP does don't find anything wrong in the advertisement of abortion by Government of India. The journalists who keep crying about bad policies of Government are not saying anything against is but supporting it by airing this advertisement on their channel. The problem is with whole intelligentsia of India who think that killing their unborn babies should be allowed to remove a possible financial burden on them and at the same time their children should not be allowed to kill them when they become old and become a financial burden to their children. 

Arvind Kejriwal and his fake secularism

Two days back saw Kejriwal on TV talking against some Muslims converting to Hinduism. Arvind Kejriwal is in public life for more than 4 years now. When he is asked about any national issues like article 370 and Kashmir, religious conversions etc. his reply is that he is concerned only about corruption and he don't have any opinion on any other subject. He has kept quiet on news of people converting from Hinduism to Christianity and Islam because he thinks that people have freedom to choose their religion. But when some people used their freedom to choose religion to embrace Hinduism, suddenly Kejriwal is concerned and want government to enact a law to stop people from converting back to Hinduism. Why is Kejriwal so concerned now? It is because he have got order from his overseas bosses to stop people from converting to Hinduism?

Why should conversion from Hinduism to other religion be allowed and converting back to Hinduism from other religion banned?  Kejriwal is just working on instructions of his overseas bosses and expresses concern on everything on which his bosses are concerned. He is running his party on foreign money and is doing whatever it takes to please his bosses. People must vote him out in next election.

Why Baba Ramdev's income is exempted from Tax?

Few days back I was having discussion with my friends and issue of Baba Ramdev's wealth came up questions were raised way Baba Ramdev's wealth should be exempted from Income Tax. Before taking up the issue of exemption from Income Tax I would like to explain why government is allowed to impose Taxes on the people.

In a country where income is uniformly distributed government don't need to impose any Tax because government don't need to run social services like Free Schools, Free Hospitals etc. because all people can pay for their expanses and government can recover cost of providing services from users. Government need very little Tax in this case for the expanses of Army for protection of country.

I will discuss taxes imposed by the government one by one and discuss their purpose one by one.

Income Tax  

In a country where 90% of total income is held by 9% of people and 9% of income is held by 90% of the people and 1% of people holding 1% of the income. 9% of the people are having income 10 time of national average (90%/9%) and 90% of people having income 1 tenth of national average income. It becomes government’s responsibility to provide Free Schools and Free Hospitals to 90% of the people. For doing this Government needs lots of funds. 10% of total national income will not be surplus. Government can't recover this cost from people who are having income 1 tenth of national average so government impose tax on 90% of the national income held of 9% of the rich people.

Imposing a tax of 10% on income above national average will yield 8.1% of national income because 9% of the income of richer 9% was exempted from Income Tax and only 81% of national income is taxed. In India where national average income is 20000 per year per person, average income of 9% of rich people comes to be around 2 Lakhs per year. But government is keeping tax free slab to 2.5 Lakhs per person for income tax. It is because in India income distribution is even more uneven and 1% of people are having 50% of total national income which is coming at 50 times of national average income (50%/1%). In India where average national income is 20,000 per year income of 1% of the richest people comes to be around 10 Lakhs per year. 

As per current income tax rules income below 2.5 Lakhs is tax free, income above 2.5 Lakhs is taxed at 10% and Income above 5 Lakhs is taxed at 20%. The tax for 10 Lakhs comes to be around 1.25 Lakhs which is 12.5% for the income of richest 1% population of India. Taxing 50% of national income at 12.5% will yield 6.25% of total national income as Income Tax. 

I would like to emphasis once again on fact that although this tax is not exorbitant from any standard the government is allowed to collect this tax only on promise that this money will be used in providing services to 90% of lesser privileged people of the country. If government can't do that it has no right to collect taxes. I will like to say once again that 1% of people holding 50% of total national income have their duty toward lesser privileged people of their country and must not resort to tax aversion on the pretext that government is corrupt. If a government is corrupt then why don't these 1% of the rich people start their own initiative to help poor people of the country? 

Wealth Tax

When wealth distribution in the country is uneven and large amount of wealth is held by a very small people of the country then government resort to wealth tax. Here also principal of taxing richer people for welfare of poor people is applied and personal property of people having 50 times of national average property is taxed. Community property which belongs to thousands or lakhs of people is not taxed because per person property value is very less and does not come in taxable limits.

The purpose of this tax is to reduce disparity in society and government have right to collect this tax only for welfare of people.

In India Wealth Tax is imposed on property more than 30 Lakhs in term of Gold, or Immovable property where house tax is not applicable. Property where house tax is applicable is not counted towards Wealth Tax.

Inheritance Tax

This one of the illegal tax which is imposed by some countries to extort money from poor descendant of the property. If government thinks that property value was very high and needs to be taxed then it should be taxed as Wealth Tax and not at death of a person. If we assume that a new generation will take over property from older generation every 30 years then taxing inheritance at 30% will yield same result as taxing 1% per year as wealth tax.

Inheritance tax is inhuman in most of the situations. For example if a person receives a house in which he is living as inherited property. He will be forced to sell that house to pay Inheritance Tax.

In India inheritance tax was abolished in 1985.

Excise Duty   

When government can't get enough money from Income and Wealth Tax due to high tax aversion and low tax rate then government resort to indirectly taxing spending of 1% rich people of the country. Excise duty is imposed on the goods manufactured in the country. Different commodities are taxed at different  rates luxury items like cars and cosmetics is taxed at higher rate and essential commodities are either tax free or taxed at very lower rate.

Here also I would like to stress on the fact that government is allowed to tax rich people only for welfare of poor people.

Sales Tax

Sales tax is imposed on sale of commodities for covering of deficit of tax collection from other taxes. Here also luxury items are taxed at higher rate and essential commodities like food grains, books is kept tax free. 

Investment instruments are either tax free or taxed at a very low rate. Securities traded in stock exchange are taxed at rate of 0.1% and gold items are taxed at 1.01%.

Stamp Duty

Stamp Duty is imposed on items on which sale tax is not applicable like sale of house or land. Here also same principle of taxing low on investment instrument and essential commodities needs to be applied. 

A house can be classified either an essential commodity or investment instrument and can never be classified as luxury items. But unfortunately government has resort to impose stamp duty of 10% on house purchase which is illegal from the point of justice. Maximum stamp duty which should be imposed on sales dead should be equal to sale tax on gold which is 1.01%.

    

House Tax 

House tax is imposed on people for up keeping of services like sanitation of the locality. It is more of a service charge than a tax. It is imposed for services which is provided to payer of the tax rather than for the welfare of poor people.

Water and Electricity charges

Water and Electricity charges the levied on people for up-keeping of facilities which people are consuming.

Exemptions

There are some exemptions granted when people spend money directly on the purpose for which government is collecting tax. In that case any money given to organization who are spending their money on welfare of people is exempted from income tax because government have no right to tax money spent on providing medical facilities. That is why any money donated to organizations involved in providing medicines and education to poor people is exempted from income tax under section 80G.

These organizations who work for welfare of people also need to build some physical assets which are having monetary value from money received as donation for purpose of providing services to poor people. If I want to provide medical facilities to 10 lakh people I can't do it from one 10x10 room. I will have to purchase land and build a big hospital for doing that. I need to do all this from money received as donation for providing free medical facilities to people because I am building these assets for providing facilities to poor people and I don't see any reason why donation money used for purchasing land and building hospital for providing medicines to poor people to be taxable.

If the organization running hospital for poor people also runs a small business of producing medicines and spend all income received from that business for welfare of poor people then I see no reason why that income should taxed.

Baba Ramdev is running an organization which is involved in providing free medical facilities to lakhs of people. For doing that he had to purchase land and build hospitals. He runs a small business of selling medicines and profit made by this business is donated to hospital run by Baba Ramdev for welfare of poor people. I don't see any reason why his income should not be tax free.

It is not that money made by teaching yoga is tax free and money made teaching aerobics is taxable. It is based on what the money received is spent. If it is spent on someone's personal pleasure then it is taxable and if it is spent on social welfare of people it is tax free.

Some people say stat Baba Ramdev is having property worth 1000 crore and if he had made 1000 crore then he should have paid tax of 300 crore also. I would like to say that this property belongs to the social welfare organization which Baba Ramdev is running and it is not Baba Ramdev's personal property. This property is required for providing free services to poor people and without this property services to poor people cannot be provided.

  

People disturbed my sleep on 31st December by burning crackers at midnight and police did not do anything

I was sleeping peacefully at my house on night of 31st December 2014 and when I was in sound sleep I was woken up by heavy sound of crackers. It was 12:00 o'clock in midnight. Who allowed people to burn crackers in midnight and disturb my sleep?

I remembered that 2 months back police published a warning in newspapers that anybody burning crackers after 10:00 PM and disturbing people's sleep will be arrested. Environmentalists were crying against pollution being created by firecrackers and urging people not to burn crackers. But on 31st December 2014 neither police nor environmentalists were doing anything. Why?

Does it have anything to do with fact that 2 months back when people were concerned  for right of sleep in night, firecracker were burnt to mark a Hindu festival and on 31st December 2014 firecracker were burnt to mark Christen new year? I think yes it is the reason that is why all environmentalists have gone silent and police is also silent. Why police is not upholding the law that burning crackers after 10:00 PM is a crime? Why social activist are not protesting against police's inaction?