#Eleksyon2016: Tax reform

The current Administration wears its savings like a badge of honor: look at how much money we’ve made, look at how much in taxes we’ve collected!

And yet matuwid-na-daan has done this by being blind to the fact of social class and socialized earnings. It has done this by placing the manang who owns a tiny sari-sari store on the same level as a start-up entrepreneur, it has done this by treating the freelance cultural worker like a doctor or lawyer with his own practice. These categories are so different from each other – especially when it comes to earnings and benefits – that to even speak of them in the same breath is an injustice.