When taxes on consumables are terribly high, and prices of daily staples keep shooting up, there is no way a democratic government could ever survive.
Once the masses see their cash outflow increasing, they turn towards the life style of rich and famous and especially the politicians. There they see opulence, the show, the circus, and the pomp.
The result is a terrible reaction aginst the system and that creates anarchy in the form of pahyya jaam, shutter down, and other similar activities.
This vicious circle further erodes the confidence of the people, and the result is that every two years, the politicians are spat at, and finally kicked out. Then military steps in as a stop gap measure.
Unfortunately, politicians who are supposed to reduce the impact of taxes on the staples and consumables like cooing oil, wheat flour, and petrol just seem to be oblivious to the facts and they keep going their happy way until the axe fall on their necks.
Until we fix the issue of bad taxation, and reduce the burden on the masses, we will continue dealing with off again, on again love fest with BB, NS, or whoever is the flavor of the day.
Our tax system is medieval, and so is our food distribution system. The result is that both the tax system, and the food distribution system allows corrupt officials and whole sales agents to monopolize the supply of money and supply of the food.
How can we get out of this vicious circle? By demanding from our leaders that we must overhaul the tax system and we must stop the monopolistic practices both by the government as well the whole sales agents.
Unfortunately even the election system is rigged against us. Political parties were supposed to be the platform for the masses. In fact it has become the fiefdom of tribal and fascist so-called leaders.
Look at major parties from North to South and from West to East. Every party has a feudal till death do us apart leader. We had some hope from MQM, it being the party of educated. Heck no! It now is a personal fiefdom of one person who can be in jail, or overseas and yet keep his iron grip on every aspect of party functions.
So here is the third demand from the current establishment. For Gad’s sake set up a system of primary elections so that we unseat the feudals from MQM, PPP, and ML.
So here is the three points agenda.
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Overhaul the tax system and remove taxes form petrol, and cooking oil and food stuff.
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Break the monopolies involved in the food supply chain (including the government monopoly).
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Institute a primary election where registered members from the masses elect their party leaders.
Three points just the measly three points and nothing else. You think we can get these?