Budget 2012 - Tomorrow
IT is going to be a day of hope; it is going to be a day of despair. It is to be the best day for some and worst day for some. The FM has enough reasons to be proud and more reasons to be ashamed. The Budget unfolds tomorrow. Right from the morning, you will be subjected to palpitating experts analysing the economy on TV channels, from all angles – except the right one. All kinds of misinformation and ignorance will be paraded as pearls of wisdom. Intellectual constipation and expressional diarrhoea will be very much visible.
In all this cacophony of sound and fury signifying nothing, the tricks our babudom play on us through those not so very popular notifications, will be completely lost sight of. We, in TIOL will bring you the essence of the budget without its rhetoric.
We are closing our Budget Run Up today and from tomorrow, we will carry in depth analyses of the complications in the budget. We hope the Finance Minister and his Babus have considered your views and wishes. As could be seen from our Budget Run Up, not many want any reduction in taxes – what worries the taxpayers is the cumbersome procedure and harassment. If you can make tax payment simple and less complicated, many of us will be grateful.
The Railway Budget derailed into the very existence of the Government and whether the Union Budget can get through Parliament is itself in doubt.
Poor Mr. Pranab Mukherji – he is certainly not in an enviable place!