The Philippine government has no moral authority to collect taxes. This government has no moral authority to collect taxes because it has failed miserably in its most basic of functions ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ which is to deliver services to the people. A government collects taxes from its people based on the premise that it uses these funds to provide services for the people. While this government is bleeding the people dry by asking more taxes, it is at the same time systematically cutting back on social services and passing many of its obligations on to the private sector. And the private sector...
the overpriced and mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. The coalition likewise calls for the review of privatization programs for services and utilities.

Corruption and ineptitude are virtually systemic in the tax bureaucracy. These are the main reasons for government's failure to generate the correct amount of revenues. The people are put at the mercy of a flawed and inefficient tax collection system.

I hope that the government should contemplate in imposing new taxes, it should first provide much needed services to the people, audit all public sector debts, and score major successes in its campaign against graft and corruption.