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Of Taxes and Ex'cess'es

कर्म करते चलो, फल की चिंता मत करो। I am pretty certain most of us would have heard this quote from Geeta. Lord Krishna advises us to keep working without focusing on the fruits of labour in terms of success or failure. Our governments over the years have lived by this mantra. The mantra is only applicable to the foolish working class. Keep working, keep paying taxes & don't expect any kind of social security, welfare, healthcare in return. Heck don't even expect good roads. For good roads aka national/state highways we'll add a toll tax . We also collect road tax when you buy a vehicle, but roads & parking is none of our business. Also, please pay a professional tax for the municipality separately. When you're done with that, we'll need you to pay an education cess , and no you're kids will never benefit from this. But yeah sure, we are building fantastic government schools with state of the art non existent toilets for girls with this cess. Also,

Internet of all things FU *P

Needless to say we all love the internet. Smartphones, super fast download speeds, they have all made us & internet inseparable lovers. We need to see each other as soon as we open our eyes, glancing wantingly throughout the day at work, can't wait to get our hands on it once home. Internet has freed us in ways we cannot even count or comprehend. It gives anonymity to those who want it and fame to those who can get it. Its miracles are abundant. Naturally, such a wonderful  tool  platform deserves to be free & open for all. There's plenty been written about Net Neutrality, I find myself standing on the other side of the line. Obviously I wouldn't want my ISPs to censor/throttle any websites, but on the other hand I think it would be nice if I could pick & pay a few extra bucks for Netflix. Don't we all pay for specific TV channels already? HBO should be made free I say. The obvious downfall could be I, in all likelihood, would be throttling my po