By Bayawanon
Time will come that nothing will be left to the coffers of the government because of its FREE SOCIAL SERVICES. Free social services are now sprouting like mushrooms in our government, we have the conditional cash transfer or 4 Ps, the free WIFI, the free college education, the extension of the life span of driver's licenses, the extension of the life span of passports, the free hospitalization and free medication.
These social services are good for the people but not good for the government, for how can the government operate effectively if it has squandered the money intended for the operation of its existence?
The government has two functions, the governmental and the proprietary functions. The governmental function of the government is the function whereby the government purely serves the people in the name of PUBLIC SERVICE whereas, the proprietary function of the government is the function of the state whereby some government instrumentalities earn money/monies for its operation and that the money/monies derived from its operation shall be used for its further services.
Can the money/monies lost by way of the free social services of the government which should have been the gains of the proprietary functions be recovered somewhere? The answer would be a big NO. Where shall the government take the recoupment of the loss of money by the same? Of course, the government will hike the taxes so that the same may recover what it lost by way of its social services.
If the taxes will skyrocket probably next year to recoup the government's losses via its free social services, INFLATION at its biggest, highest and widest degree might happen in the Philippines and an ECONOMIC CRISIS is not remote.
Secondly, with the downward spiraling of our peace and order situation because of the extrajudicial killings, and the communist and Muslim insurgencies, the foreign investors might shy away from having business in the country and foreign tourists may also think twice about visiting the country. Because of these, the economy would weaken and a bleak economic future for us might be in the offing.
We may not feel the economic recession by now, but the long-term effect of the indecisions of the current administration would soon be felt by us in due time. We have no other recourse by then but to FASTEN OUR SEAT BELTS.
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