Just a quick suggestion. Government would like very much to encourage the use of sales receipts, to force businesses to properly report their income, and by extension, to force them to pay the proper tax on that income.
Whenever I go into a McDonalds or Jollibee restaurant, I see a sign which reads "If we fail to give you a receipt, your order is free". The purpose of this, of course, is to help the store prevent its own employees from stealing money. Why don't we pass a law requiring all businesses, of all types, to implement the same policy? I'm sure that most customers would be happy to take advantage of the chance to get some free merchandise, which would force businesses to offer receipts for their own protection. Some people might say that such a requirement is unfair to the poor businessman, but in truth the only businessman who would be hurt is the one who tries to cheat the system.
As a matter of fact, why don't we apply the same law to government services? If a government office fails to give you a receipt for a service it provided to you, that service must be absolutely free. What a concept!
Just a little idea, but it's one of the nuts and bolts that need tightening in this wonderful country we call the Philippines.
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"It's no use saying 'We are doing our best'. You have got to do what is necessary."
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
"I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution."
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."
Winston Churchill
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
Edmund Burke
"I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
David Brin
"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
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