V. Santos-Recto is Hilarious

Friday, April 13, 2007 | 9:05 AM

Don't you just hate Vilma Santos?

Yesterday on the national primetime news, Mayor Vilma Santos-Recto of Lipa, an actress and candidate for governorship in Batangas, tried to justify EVAT (Extended Value Added Tax – a consumption tax imposed on the sale or importation of goods and services), of which her husband, senatorial candidate Ralph Recto, is one of the authors.

She said that her husband was right in pursuing the implementation of Republic Act 9337 because EVAT was responsible for procuring 80-B pesos for the country's expenses.

She added that Sen. Recto did not just pocket the money, and that they wrote EVAT with the Filipinos’ welfare in mind.

Let us not forget that, according to the latest Political and Economic Risk Consultancy survey, based in Hong Kong, the Philippines is the most corrupt country in Asia. That’s why the Philippines has been getting the least amount of foreign direct investment, and the level of foreign capital flowing to our stock market is low.

Let us not forget that, although Santos-Recto claims that our government spent 80-B pesos for building more schools for the poverty-stricken districts of the Philippines, despite the Philippine Constitution mandating the government to allocate the highest proportion of its budget to education, the Philippines remains to have one of the lowest budget allocations to education among the ASEAN countries.

Let us not forget that in the latest ASEAN summit held in Cebu City, a sum of 27,776,000 pesos was spent for the 124 sets of lampposts alone.

Let us not forget that the 12% EVAT, or VAT for that matter, applied on almost all of the Pinoy's commodities has made so many of our countrymen hungry, thus, resorting to desperate and sometimes illegal ways to survive.

EVAT has killed so many Filipinos, and Mayor Vilma Santos-Recto, Sen. Ralph Recto, and the rest of those officials seating on their comfortable thrones do not see that.

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