diwana
February 28, 2013, 5:57am
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Re: No new university in Hyderabad
^ No point arguing with someone who doesn’t understand the basic principles like ‘ratio’, ‘proportion’ and ‘relatively’.** I am not suggesting that smaller cities should have SAME facilities as larger cities. Simply saying that RELATIVELY more should be spent on smaller cities compared to larger cities** (per capita or per sq. mile or on whatever basis).
Saying that London has more facilities because it pays taxes is absolutely ABSURD. London houses more than 12% of UK’s population and is perhaps the largest city in Europe. It has ‘more’ facilities because it is BIG and those facilities are required to cater for such large population and businesses.
I can refer you to tons and tons and tons of literature in economics which would tell you that taxation is used a tool for REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH (a simple search on Google scholar should reveal that to you anyways and you yourself have given example of how ALL people in UK receive similar health and education facilities regardless of what area they live in and how much tax is generated in that area). Kindly find me any literature suggesting that government should spend more in an areas where it receives more taxation.
Bhai, you have conflicting statements in bold.
This “relatively more” is a very dangerous thing to do.
And yes the direction should be what you are saying. Not denying.
But it should be a slower process. Over time. Smaller portion over time on rural areas.
Larger portion still should go to where it came from.
We know former East Pakistan had this complaint (rightly so) when West Pakistan decided to build Islamabad for West Pakistani elites from the revenue generated by East Pakistan.
The pampered Islamabadites