
Found the news link:
http://www.todayonline.com/sports/non-r ... lities-may" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I wonder what other aspects of life we will need to start paying more.
The other question is how many things are we already paying more for.Wd40 wrote:Today we went to the Tampines swimming complex and there was a notice stating that Non Singaporeans and Non PRs will pay higher for using the swimming pool from May onwards
Found the news link:
http://www.todayonline.com/sports/non-r ... lities-may" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I wonder what other aspects of life we will need to start paying more.
That's right. Throw it out there. Give them the idea of "Well, they are anticipating it so we may as well go ahead an give them what they are expecting, isn't it?" With FT like that, we don't even need the opposition! Thanks!Wd40 wrote:I wonder in future whether we will have differential pricing for using public transport also. Different EZ Link card for foreigners.
You don't suppose the fact that they have a very immature electorate, that the leaders are any more mature do you? After all, they are from the same genetic pool that is growing more and more depleted as time goes on.ginger_bread wrote:Yesterday we went to the Science Centre, and wanted to renew our expired family membership. We were told we could not do so since the management were still "working on it (supposedly pricing)" for foreigners membership.
So sad. I don't know why people keep talking about stop "subsidizing foreigners". Foreigners fall into different categories. We are tax residents of Singapore, not tourists who come here for a few days. I can understand if tourists need to pay more, but not when it comes to the non-citizen tax paying population. What's wrong of using the tax money on us too? After all we pay tax.
Apparently a lot of public utilities and services such as transport are massively subsidized by government ..ginger_bread wrote:.
So sad. I don't know why people keep talking about stop "subsidizing foreigners".
If it eventually comes to that, most of us will find another place to move or we will just go back home and wont be too unhappy about it, after all home is home. It is the locals who will be affected most. Anyways what has to happen will happen and us whining wont change it. There is no point comparing with Indonesia or Vietnam. We work in Singapore because it is Singapore.ecureilx wrote:Apparently a lot of public utilities and services such as transport are massively subsidized by government ..ginger_bread wrote:.
So sad. I don't know why people keep talking about stop "subsidizing foreigners".
So it's about time non citizens pay the fair cost .. is the intention of the govt and the general populace ..
...add to it the suddenly very vocal voting population that is finding the small red being over crowded so fast ... and the govt has to appease the voters or the rulers will be jobless, and new rulers may turn all previous policies 180 degree, .just for the fun of doing it (in Asia political vengeance always overrides national interests ... ) and companies will find Singapore unstable and unattractive and the neighbors, who have been trying very hard to have a slice of Singapore's economic success, will find things just fit easier (just look at Malaysia and their recent reclamation near Tuas, and the location of PTP, for example), and then all of us can pack and leave
It's politics and reality ... I wouldn't whine
Indeed they will. But they're relying on 'the sticky element' who are, er, stuck here, and will pay what ever, and either way it's fodder for the home-masses.Wd40 wrote:If it eventually comes to that, most of us will find another place to move or we will just go back home and wont be too unhappy about it, after all home is home.
It is the locals who will be affected most. Anyways what has to happen will happen and us whining wont change it. There is no point comparing with Indonesia or Vietnam. We work in Singapore because it is Singapore.
It is purely political and well calculated. It "hits" the hardest those who are the least welcomed in Singapore but even if it appears not so nice, when it comes to the small things this discussion is about (entrance fees, etc) it is with no significance for any tax paying Singapore foreigners at all. Are you really going to leave this country because you have to pay more than a SC to borrow a book? C'mon.Wd40 wrote:If it eventually comes to that, most of us will find another place to move or we will just go back home and wont be too unhappy about it, after all home is home. It is the locals who will be affected most. Anyways what has to happen will happen and us whining wont change it. There is no point comparing with Indonesia or Vietnam. We work in Singapore because it is Singapore.
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