Aquino recently issued AO 31 which “allows for the rationalization and increase of all government fees. Through it, the heads of all departments, bureaus, commissions, agencies, offices, and instrumentalities of the bureaucracy, including government-owned and controlled corporations are directed and authorized to rationalize the rates of their existing fees and charges, and increase such rates and impose new fees and charges if and when they find it necessary.”
TAXATION – THE NEW TYRANNY
This reminds me of that Congresswoman who attempted to pass a bill to increase OFW fees and who withdrew it after the outrage.
Well, so much for that – Aquino, obviously just did one better with this recent tyrannical administrative order.
Government service is an oxymoron like military intelligence.
As the RH bill and the “Sin Tax” measures are facing rough sailing – in the face of dwindling BIR revenues, this gang of criminals which calls itself government and headed by Aquino has unilaterally imposed an increase government fees. This is to compensate for the shortfall in BIR tax collections. As reported by the Manila Standard – the tax collection goals have not been met three times in a row.
The word “revenue” when used by the government – is Orwellian doublespeak in nature because government revenue is a tax on citizens – and is an expense – a liability to citizens. From the taxpayers’ point of view – every time government has increases in revenue – that translates to decreases in your personal income. When your income is reduced – you have less money to spend on education, health, food, clothing, and shelter – the basics. Then government comes into the picture proclaiming more spending in “services” – using your money of course.
Instead of spending more money on the DA’s rice self-sufficiency bullshit – we ought to be deregulating the agriculture market. Allow farmers to trade with whoever they want – domestic or foreign, instead of being submitted to the DA’s quotas, restrictions, and nonsensical subsidies and funds that only wind up in the pockets of Enrile and Cojuangco.
Instead of ramping up the budget on the CHED which only creates more Filipinos with antiquated, uncompetitive skill sets – we ought to be opening the education market and allow more private participation – domestic or foreign to open more schools and educate more students than any CHED budget can allow.
Instead of serving the DOH -owned hospitals to Aquino’s cronies under the guise of PPP, we ought to be opening the health market – to allow both private foreign and domestic health facility providers to serve the Filipinos in dire need of health care – more than any DOH/DOF Sin Tax can muster.
Yellow: The New Red – Straight from the Horse’ Mouth
The government scam of monopolizing services and issuing restrictive regulations which strangles private enterprise and free markets certainly provides universal access to lousy education and lousy health services.
Kinda reminds me of Lord Winston Churchill’s quip – “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries”. True enough, when Aquino attended the Akbayan congress – he said he shares the same approach as the left-leaning group – “I and the members of Akbayan think alike”.
By golly, Aquino just pulled a King George in the spirit of Marx. In the 1750s to 1760s, a similar imposition lead to the Boston Tea Party with the battle cry of “No taxation without representation”.
Taxation By Misrepresentation
In the 21st century, we have “taxation by misrepresentation” – and an expanding bunch of welfare state recipients who want to equalize misery because individual achievement is “evil”.
What these welfare recipients don’t get is that – coercing productive citizens to part away with their hard earned money so that Aquino and Lagman can hand out free contraceptives or cash transfers is just wrong.
Take for instance the “newly revised RH bill”. It is a classic case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions. Government lackeys tried to justify passage of the RH bill on the basis that reducing TFR (Total Fertility Rate) will decrease poverty. AP’s readers would have easily quashed that statement with the fact that “correlation does not imply causality”.
However, I would like to go further by using the tools of science – applied math and statistics. And instead of reinventing the wheel – point you to the study of Wong and Fumitaka on Population and Economic Growth in Asian Economies which concluded that
In more practical terms this means – having a large jobless population is not good, having a large employed population is excellent.
Reducing the population of the poor to give way to the desired healthy and rich folks.. that’s eugenics. Give jobs to the poor don’t sterilize them because they are poor. If that happened to poor Aling Dionisia or poor mom of Manny Villar or poor mom of Manny Pangilinan or poor mom of Jessica Sanchez or poor mom of Charice Pempengco. You wouldn’t have a Manny Pacquiao or a Senator Villar for that matter – or those icons of the “proud pinoy” zombies. 
Instead of asking for dole-outs, we need to demand that the market be set free so that job creators – the investors, the entrepreneurs, the innovators – whether homegrown or from overseas can provide jobs to our countrymen.
Where are the results of Aquino’s Daang Matuwid?
Nearly a year ago, I put myself out on a limb when I made six predictions about the Philippines in 2012
How many of this came true?
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1. More Jobs…. Overseas -
Results: PHL unemployment remains stagnant at 7%, underemployment expanded to 22%
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2. Spending will increase… public spending
Results: Sin Tax, CCT subsidy, Aquino’s P317B pork barrel
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3. More Loans and Credit… By Government
Results:
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Officer-In-Charge Juan D. De Zuñiga, Jr. reported that the country’s outstanding external debt approved/registered by the BSP stood at US$62.9 billion as of end-March 2012, reflecting an increase of US$1.2 billion (or 1.9 percent) compared to the level at the close of 2011
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4. No long-term solution to Poverty in the Philippines
Results:
PHL government still restricts jobs from coming into the Philippines and will rather sterilize the poor to reduce their numbers – using the taxes paid by the poor – instead of removing the 60/40 restrictions
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5. Low Foreign Direct Investments to Continue
Results:
PHL’s FDI target of $2B in 2012 was readjusted to $1.5B and was again readjusted to $1.2B – a $1B FDI was called a “surge” . Tell that to Malaysia whose FDI stood at $12B
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6. Low GDP Per Capita to Continue in the $3500-$3800 band
Results:
Jury is still out -
GDP Per capita PPP at constant 2005 international $ – $3,560
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For all the talk of “it’s more fun in the Philippines”, the recent findings that the Philippines has the highest incidence of depression in Southeast Asia belies the slogan.
A lie repeated often does not become truth – it just leads to more depression, and more gutom. 
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The Bangsamoro peace agreement is a farce
A bangsamoro welfare state will not have peace. It’s doomed to fail from the get-go.
The moro will be poorer, his liberties will be assaulted, his homeland will be occupied by oligarchs who want the oil in liguasan marsh.
The moros will face more poverty – for they have turned their backs against the free market tenets of Islam.
A Bangsamoro welfare state does not do any justice to the sacrifices of the moro ancestors.
Bangsamoro framework will not bring development to Mindanao – ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION WILL.
The Qur’an defends, amongst other things, private property, contract law, and profit through trade. It prohibits fraud. Muhammad himself prohibited price-fixing. The liberal scholar Dr Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad has argued that, even from a political perspective, the sacred text provides much guidance for believers in liberalism – advocating limited taxation, decentralisation, and strict restraints on the public sector. Believers are to draw their income from the natural resources granted to them by God-it is not a legitimate role of the state to obstruct this process. The Qur’an is clear about Islamic priorities: pray, then profit.
Islamo socialism became rampant after the Arab landowning minorities who were against trade and considered it sinful became a majority due to theocratic and government interventions – and they have yet to return to the Gilded age of Islam’s free market traditions. This is the same islamo socialism that the MNLF and MILF are pushing.
What’s needed is an awakening among Moros about the free market traditions of Islam to go beyond the Islamo socialist traditions taught by Omar Sharif Kabungsuan and his progeny..
What Next Philippines?
In July 2010, I wrote “Walang Pagsisisi sa Simula”.
I certainly don’t wish my countrymen any ill will. But, Aquino is a monster that they themselves created – with their vote. You break it, you own it.
That’s what VOTING FOR THE LEAST EVIL GOT YOU – MORE EVIL!
In 2013 – Vote for the good – not the evil. Don’t expect new results from the same old douchebags and half-wits who only want more of your money to spend on their “epal” palamunins.
Find, seek those candidates who will reduce taxes, downsize government, free the market – those who will leave you unhampered in your quest for personal happiness. And if you can’t find any – don’t waste your vote by voting – boycott the elections – its useless anyways. Have a tea party instead – the boston variety, not the english or japanese one. 
Good luck, may the force be with you all – lots of it. 
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