Tax delinquent Politician

A mayor in Central Pangasinan would not allow an ex-mayor in Eastern Pangasinan to mess with the valuation of the Real Property Tax the latter owed the town the former heads.

This mayor deplored in the past about the delinquencies of this former mayor who did not pay the taxes for several years of his huge tracts of land in the former town.

Before the March 31, 2011 deadline arrives for the payment of RPT, the former mayor beats the deadline to avoid the hefty penalties and surcharges the new valuation bring from the province that run up to 300% in new hikes.

“He tried to convince me that I arbitrarily reduce his past arrears and penalties by up to 60%,”the smarting mayor was overheard to say before us Hao-shiao media men of Pangasinan.

He did not heed the immoral request.

This former mayor used to slap one of the members of the Taliban Press.

(What happened to that case now Joe, and Ed?)

The mayor of this Central Pangasinan town said that his marginalized constituents religiously pay their RPT while this outsider has been delinquent since time immemorial.

He said that rich taxpayers are the number one violators of payment of their taxes in his town.

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Some nights ago, I saw Professor Winnie MOnsod on her program “Bawal ang Pasaway” exhorting her students at the University of the Philippines to stay and work in the country instead of going abroad for greener pasture.

For me that’s okay for government scholars and the crème de la crème of public universities.

Government should pass a law that government scholars not only in the University of the Philippines but in other state colleges should sign a contract before they are accepted.

The contract stipulates that after they graduate they work for a couple of years in the country as their mode of payment to their free education.

This is being done at the Philippine Military Academy when its graduate has contract to serve for 15 year from plebe hood up to the time he is allowed to get out to, say, join the ranks of pilots of Philippine Airlines or Cebu Pacific that give them triple or more pay than what they received in the armed forces.

Monsod should not assail a Filipino who after graduation scampers to jobs abroad.

As long as jobs and pay are scarce and low in our country, our young’s would be tempted to go abroad.

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My only dismay, however, in life is so unfair.

Before one graduates in high school up to the early 1990s, a Marcosian  law called National College Entrance Examination (NCEE)  required a senior secondary student to pass it otherwise he would not get a four-year course.

That law (which for me should be re-enacted by Congress) separate the superior to the nincompoop.

Those who passed it take the four year course in college. Those who did not take the two year maritime course offered by colleges like PAMA.

As a result, those nincompoops owned now three cars and two houses (because they go abroad), while those of us who felt that we were superior intellectually could hardly meet both ends.

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