In case you missed it, Minister Heng Swee Keat delivered a speech on the 2019 Budget. Some takeaways include the bicentennial bonus, personal tax income rebate, top up of Post Secondary Education Accounts for students and the Merdeka Package.
Now I'm sure many of us are thinking if the elections are coming. Why are there so many chicken wings being given out now? Should we be happy? Well the answer to that is written all over the 151 medias social media accounts. Even though Straits Times has an article titled 'Budget gets thumbs-up from older folk and young people', a closer inspection on their comments section reveal what citizens really think. Questions about whether elections are coming, accusations of the government buying the votes of citizens through chicken wings like these and also how the chicken wings do not actually help us with the rising costs in Singapore.
Many people also agreed that these chicken wings are pointless. "Why not just release our CPF instead of doing so many pointless things?" is one of the more popular questions raised. What do you think? Would you rather they release our CPF monies instead of coming up with these schemes?
