Willing to throw out all FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/15/2010

Willing to throw out all

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/15/2010 Noynoy and his boys have so rapidly become Gloria and her spokesmen’s clones. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, in defending Noynoy and his Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) chief’s insistence on imposing the 12 percent expanded value added tax (eVAT) on toll fees which would have been increased tomorrow by 250 percent, claimed, in Gloria vintage fashion, that Noynoy and his administration would rather be unpopular than populist. Well, the way Noynoy and his boys are going about things, it is probable that he will become very, very unpopular and wrong, at the same time, in less than a year in Malacañang, although Noynoy may still have the full support of and given praise by, his business elite whom he favors and naturally, his fawning yellows. Still, they hardly represent the Filipino people. Lacierda also placed the blame on Gloria and her administration for this tax imposition, saying that she had twice come up with a memorandum circular (MC) imposing this eVAT on toll fares, but failed to enforce it, fearing unpopularity and prefering the populist approach.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100815com2.html

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