‘Govt duped people with sin tax’

THE government has duped Filipino into believing that the controversial sin tax reform measure would benefit the people particularly in providing health services without having the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) increase its premiums.

Militant labor group Bukluran ng Mangagawang Filipino (BMP) said that despite exceeding its sin tax revenue targets last year, the Aquino adminis–tration is bleeding the workers to death with excessive PhilHealth and Social Security System (SSS) collections.