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In India, the "middle class" is vast - it encompasses people earning 7000 a month, to those earning 2 lakh a month. When we speak of "middle class" India, we refer to people from anywhere within this vast limit. You are part of the middle class, so am I and so is Jackprince and most of the DFI members.Abolishing of all taxes?
You live in utopia?
Relevant taxes and not sneaky ones and be upfront. If it affect, then just too bad, but one knows how the money is being spent.
South Indians roads are good.I have travelled on them extensively. But India is not South India.
Air travel cheap? Don't compare world rates, Go by PPP.
Improve the railways for sure. Raise the price of ticket, No hassles. But remember the majority of Indians travel by rail. Check it in economic and social terms when raising the price. I am sure you do not understand social costs and the economics of the not so privileged who use the rail as their means of conveyance for trade and business also.
I think you are too divorced from the reality called India, since air travel is cheap to you and used by the 'middle class'!
I wish that were true!
Everyone in this middle class pays taxes in one way or the other, in several different forms. As a matter of coincidence, I booked my next ticket just now, and happened to notice this, since we've been discussing about taxes and tariffs:
Look at that massive tax. Almost as much as the fare. If the taxes were removed, I could travel first class, for the same amount. Yet, as you said we do not live in utopia. The government needs to collect taxes and stuff, it is something we cannot avoid!!
Taxes are a certainty of life, and a necessity. All we can press for, is more transparency in the spending mechanism - making things more visible online, IT-enablement and computerization of government functions, etc.