Another cess or tax is going to be introduced to aid the ailing oil industry. As if people are not taxed enough! I mean come on; life has become such a pain these days for us Mumbaikars. It’s like living in a rut and never finding the way out.
First of all, finding decent jobs is difficult. While a lot of people come here to earn a living, most forget that nearly nothing can be saved. The cost of living is that high. Real estate and food prices are going through the roof and traveling from one end of the city to the other can cause so much stress that it can drastically reduce your life-span. To top it all, relationships are taking a beating due to increased work hours and less time for socializing.
Then, after all the trouble one goes through to survive, you realise that the government has taxed almost everything leaving you with peanuts in your hand. Those who don not live with family, end up paying nearly half their pay packets as rent! Add travel and food costs and more often than not you are broke much before the month end.
I can even understand being taxed if some good comes off it. Like that advertisement that asks everyone to dutifully pay taxes so that the money can be used to build infrastructure. But as we all know that almost never happens. Our hard earned money goes into the politicians’ pockets and we continue to live in impoverished conditions that deteriorate even further.
Just as an example, take the monsoon. It’s a yearly phenomenon so it never catches us by surprise. The BMC has nine months to complete repairing roads, building new flyovers, de-silt drains. Yet every year the rains manage to catch the BMC on the wrong foot as if they never knew that June would mark the beginning of the rains! While a 26/7 is a natural disaster that no one can prepare for even the normal Mumbai rains catches the city administration napping and Mumbaikars running for cover.
It’s seriously so frustrating to see all my hard earned money go into the hands of incompetent fools who have no clue on how to run the country. Try as I may to think of politics as a circus, it still hurts that this is the freedom that our ancestors gave their blood and soul for. Was it worth it?
Gautam said
Why are you so frustrated in life..Living in Mumbai was never easy..It is just getting worse..Get all the money which the Government is taking as tax from you from your employer..That’s the way..
Quirky Indian said
Not so sure it was worth it….we seem to have replaced one lot of rulers with a more incompetent lot…..
Quirky Indian
Vinay said
From proposed oil cress on tax to Mumbai rains, you have criticised everything you could imagine. And by the way oil cess, if introduced, will be same for whole country… why do you Mumbaikars always expect special treatment?
And, to manage Mumbai rains they don’t need to know how to run a country, but how to run a city. Right!
shreya said
i dont gree with any of the others who have commented here..i absolutely agree with wat has been said!!!