Comments on: 1. The role of government is to create wealth, not redistribute wealth

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By: Salve

Salve — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:05:57 +0000

Hello!

I’ve read your article. It is good.

I know that we aim to make the pie bigger but there’s a need for redistribution of wealth to ensure that the poor can be part of that growth- and ofcourse, this redistribution of wealth is spear-headed by our government.

If the focus is just to grow, the possible result would be this “the rich will be richer and poor will be poorer”. The government invest on programs to help the poor help themselves. Without this redistribution function, economic progress, i think becomes an impossibility.

I hope you get my point.

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By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:06:13 +0000

The big problems in the Philippines are political leaders attitude, government employees corrupts, most of the Filipinos are with mañana habits or laziness, envious, and crab mentality. That makes what is Philippines now.

By: James

James — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:16:42 +0000

The role of government is to create wealth, not redistribute wealth…

Here is a current issue that I will try to use as an example. The newly enacted Senior Citizens Law mandated all drugstore owners to “redistribute their hard-earned wealth” by ordering them not to collect VAT from our elderly citizens and at the same time give 20% discount to them. As I see it, the government’s constitutional mandate to take care of its elderly citizens is being passed on to the private merchants… a very clear case “of taking from Peter to give to Paul.”

By: Cesar

Cesar — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:07:50 +0000

The role of the government is to create a level playing field, where the environment is conducive for growth and progress. The Philippines is endowed with many natural resources where it can be harness for better use among its citizens.

Harnessing of the resource should be done in a just, equitable and sustainable way. As a citizenof the land, we have a just claim for the harnessing of the resource, an equitable share for those who labored in the harnessing of the resource to be put in good use. Most importantly, sustainable harnessing of the resource to ensure its continued availability for the generations to come.

Our government is tasked as the manager of the wealth of the nation. Thus, it is only just to make those person in the governme accountable even after their tenure of service. Making them accountable will make them hopefully better manager if there is a prospect of consequential effects of their actions while in office.

It is deem equitable that we amply provide for the needs of our carrer government officials and their families while dispensing their duties to the outmost of their abilities – even after their term of office – if this will bring about honest and dedicated service in return. Thus, the harnessing of the nation’s wealth will have maximum effects to the majority of its citizens.

Sustainable harnessing of resources also should also involve due considerations to the maximum benefits that will be brought about to the citizens.

By: Roger Grates

Roger Grates — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:39:19 +0000

That’s why I reinstated Sen. Recto.. He’s one of a kind.. di lng puro sarili iniisip.. he did his job well at the expense of his career.. majority of the politician main purpose is to distribute gov’t spending w/o adding a single penny to it.. taz nangunguna sa pagtuligsa sa EVAT.. don din naman kinuha porkbarrel nila.. hypocrites.. at least recto created other source of income para pagpartehan nila..
just my 2 cents!

By: Sailboat

Sailboat — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:04:13 +0000

But of course government is doing both. The governors and politicians are ever creatng wealth that has been redistributed among themselves. To be fair, the economy is growing, but for whom? I agree the government do more to keep the productivity of our agriculture and the farmers secure and fulfilled of their basic human wants. This means government ought to protec them more than making them carriers of concession chips in the zero-tariff and tree trade table games with more prosperous countries in US, Europe and the ASEAN. In the guise of removing trade restraints in the global and regional economy , these countries are helping themseves at the expense of our farmers who are ill equipped in a competitive arena where only the strong may survive.

By: administrator

administrator — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:46:15 +0000

thanks jon,

At the heart is trying to cultivate what is our ‘natural’ competitive advantage.

many countries have the water, the climate, and the soil to built on agriculture. I think we have small pieces of land covered with water. We should develop our human resources, instead, and encourage investments. attract business people to do business here so that our people don’t have to go abroad looking for jobs.

Doing business is not exploitation. It is using the forces of demand and supply.