{"id":4917,"date":"2008-04-03T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2008-04-03T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:28:00","slug":"where-your-taxes-go-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/where-your-taxes-go-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Your Taxes Go: 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 62 sandstone elephants in Lucknow. Their cost, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/mayas-project-62-sandstone-elephants-for-rs-38-crore\/59771-3.html\" title=\"Maya's project: 62 sandstone elephants for Rs 38 crore\">according to CNN-IBN<\/a>: Rs. 38 crore. They will be part of the Ambedkar Memorial, which, <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/News\/News_By_Industry\/Ambedkar_Memorial_in_Lucknow_to_cost_Rs_7_bn\/articleshow\/2841886.cms\" title=\"Ambedkar Memorial in Lucknow to cost Rs 7 bn\">according to <i>The Economic Times<\/i><\/a>, is being built at &#8220;a whopping cost of Rs 7 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Rs. 700 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, I know that&#8217;s your money, and mine. But it&#8217;s not like we were planning to do anything useful with it. The nation needs an Ambedkar Memorial. And the memorial needs sandstone elephants. No?<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Akshat Kaul. For more on how our government loots us, check out <a href=\"\/category\/Taxes\/\" title=\"Taxes on India Uncut\">my Taxes Archive<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 62 sandstone elephants in Lucknow. Their cost, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/mayas-project-62-sandstone-elephants-for-rs-38-crore\/59771-3.html\" title=\"Maya's project: 62 sandstone elephants for Rs 38 crore\">according to CNN-IBN<\/a>: Rs. 38 crore. They will be part of the Ambedkar Memorial, which, <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/News\/News_By_Industry\/Ambedkar_Memorial_in_Lucknow_to_cost_Rs_7_bn\/articleshow\/2841886.cms\" title=\"Ambedkar Memorial in Lucknow to cost Rs 7 bn\">according to <i>The Economic Times<\/i><\/a>, is being built at &#8220;a whopping cost of Rs 7 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Rs. 700 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, I know that&#8217;s your money, and mine. But it&#8217;s not like we were planning to do anything useful with it. The nation needs an Ambedkar Memorial. And the memorial needs sandstone elephants. No?<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Akshat Kaul. For more on how our government loots us, check out <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/categories\/category\/Taxes\/\" title=\"Taxes on India Uncut\">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":[6,3,15,24,4,28,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Your Taxes Go: 29 - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/where-your-taxes-go-29\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where Your Taxes Go: 29 - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 62 sandstone elephants in Lucknow. 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