{"id":4662,"date":"2008-07-18T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T05:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T05:08:01","slug":"where-your-taxes-go-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/where-your-taxes-go-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Your Taxes Go: 35"},"content":{"rendered":"
On a statue for a dead farmer in Karnataka<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m not kidding you, see the link above. A farmer named Siddalingappa Choori was shot by the cops for no fault of his own, and then:<\/p>\n […] Choori’s wife, Kusuma, was given an appointment letter to work in the Haveri tehsildar’s office, and the government undertook to pay her children’s school fees and promised to install a statue of Choori in the town.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Compensation and suchlike is fine, but why on earth should my hard-earned tax money go into building a statue for a dead farmer? (Or even a dead politician, but that’s another matter.) If they really need to get rid of that money, just hand it over to Kusuma, it’ll be more use there. Who thought of a statue<\/i> and why? I want to smoke what he was smoking, I do.<\/p>\n (Link via email from Happy-Go-Lucky<\/a>. For more on how our government loots us, check out my Taxes Archive<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On a statue for a dead farmer in Karnataka<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m not kidding you, see the link above. A farmer named Siddalingappa Choori was shot by the cops for no fault of his own, and then:<\/p>\n […] Choori’s wife, Kusuma, was given an appointment letter to work in the Haveri tehsildar’s office, and the government undertook to pay her children’s school fees and promised to install a statue of Choori in the town.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Compensation and suchlike is fine, but why on earth should my hard-earned tax money go into building a statue for a dead farmer? (Or even a dead politician, but that’s another matter.) If they really need to get rid of that money, just hand it over to Kusuma, it’ll be more use there. Who thought of a statue<\/i> and why? I want to smoke what he was smoking, I do.<\/p>\n (Link via email from Happy-Go-Lucky<\/a>. For more on how our government loots us, check out my Taxes Archive<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,24,28,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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