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high, or that a subsidy should go only to the needy. Sir, bearing in mind that practically all trips are educational in
one sense or another for those who are still in their learning and formative years, their
education is subsidised and heavily so that is
even in the voluntary stage of education, e from Form through to university, That there e. is cross-subsidisation already by other pass- engers to those below the age of 12 which practice has never been challenged or objected to in principle, what is so wrong with my alternative policy, which involves no public expenditure, which saves all of the $265
illion annually budgetted under head 186, sub-head 223, instead of only saving.$106
thato
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Xillion, and which incidentally, my alt-
ernative_poliey, also reduces the size of the bureaucracy, and how do we compare the existing and revised policy with this my alt- ernative policy, which in a way is akin to an indirect tax, but for an earmarked purpose, and not involving any tax collection or
administration costs? And how do we compare this alternative with the contemplated introduction of a general sales tax across the
I realise
board? [Sir, I suggest we have not been imagin- ative enough in our policy-making. there are constraints in policy-making, and, among them, political constrains loom large. However, let us not forget what policies are for they are first and foremost for the solution of public problems. Politically
feasible policies are not necessarily proper solutions, and proper solutions are not necessarily unfeasible politically.
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