{"id":5801,"date":"2007-03-20T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2007-03-20T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T08:07:00","slug":"where-your-taxes-go-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/where-your-taxes-go-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Where your taxes go: 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE420070317050018&amp;Page=4&amp;Title=Features+-+People+%26+Lifestyle&amp;Topic=0\" title=\"Amitabh Bachchan stars in commercials for Uttar Pradesh\">Advertising campaigns for governments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strike>It&#8217;s quite possible that Amitabh Bachchan did the ads for UP for free, but my contention is that the government shouldn&#8217;t be wasting our tax money in producing and broadcasting advertisements for itself.<\/strike> <\/p>\n<p>(<b>Update<\/b>: Reader Hemant brings my attention, via his comment below, to an Amitabh quote in the article in which he says that the ads were funded by the SP. If so, then this is clearly a wrong example, as your taxes may not be involved in this particular case. My bad, sorry! My larger point about government advertising, though, remains.)<\/p>\n<p>A government should not need to advertise, its efficiency or inefficiency will be evident to all the people it governs. By all means, let a political party advertise its achievements with its own money, but to spend taxpayers&#8217; money on it is a waste. <\/p>\n<p>(Where your taxes go: <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-1.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-2.html\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-3.html\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-4.html\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/where-your-taxes-go-5_10.html\">5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/where-your-taxes-go-6.html\">6<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/where-your-taxes-go-7.html\">7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/where-your-taxes-go-8.html\">8<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/where-your-taxes-go-9.html\">9<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/where-your-taxes-go-10.html\">10<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/where-your-taxes-go-11.html\">11<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/where-your-taxes-go.html\">12<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/where-your-taxes-go-13.html\">13<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/where-your-taxes-go-14.html\" title=\"Taxes!\">14<\/a>, <a href=\"\/where-your-taxes-go-15\/\" title=\"Taxes!\">15<\/a>, <a href=\"\/where-your-taxes-go-16\/\" title=\"Taxes!\">16<\/a>, <a href=\"\/where-your-taxes-go-17\/\" title=\"Taxes!\">17<\/a>. Also see: <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/government-money-is-our-money.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/sania-mirza-wants-your-money.html\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/tax-relief-for-amitabh-bachchan.html\" title=\"Tax relief for Amitabh Bachchan\">3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My essays on taxes and government: <a href=\"\/taxes-in-india-your-maid-funds-unani\/\" title=\"Your maid funds Unani -- Amit Varma\">Your maid funds Unani<\/a>, <a href=\"\/a-beast-called-government\/\" title=\"A beast called government -- Amit Varma\">A beast called government<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE420070317050018&amp;Page=4&amp;Title=Features+-+People+%26+Lifestyle&amp;Topic=0\" title=\"Amitabh Bachchan stars in commercials for Uttar Pradesh\">Advertising campaigns for governments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strike>It&#8217;s quite possible that Amitabh Bachchan did the ads for UP for free, but my contention is that the government shouldn&#8217;t be wasting our tax money in producing and broadcasting advertisements for itself.<\/strike> <\/p>\n<p>(<b>Update<\/b>: Reader Hemant brings my attention, via his comment below, to an Amitabh quote in the article in which he says that the ads were funded by the SP. If so, then this is clearly a wrong example, as your taxes may not be involved in this particular case. My bad, sorry! My larger point about government advertising, though, remains.)<\/p>\n<p>A government should not need to advertise, its efficiency or inefficiency will be evident to all the people it governs. By all means, let a political party advertise its achievements with its own money, but to spend taxpayers&#8217; money on it is a waste. <\/p>\n<p>(Where your taxes go: <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-1.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-2.html\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-3.html\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/where-your-taxes-go-4.html\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/where-your-taxes-go-5_10.html\">5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/where-your-taxes-go-6.html\">6<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/where-your-taxes-go-7.html\">7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/where-your-taxes-go-8.html\">8<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/where-your-taxes-go-9.html\">9<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/where-your-taxes-go-10.html\">10<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/where-your-taxes-go-11.html\">11<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/where-your-taxes-go.html\">12<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/where-your-taxes-go-13.html\">13<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/where-your-taxes-go-14.html\" title=\"Taxes!\">14<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/where-your-taxes-go-15\/\" title=\"Taxes!\">15<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/where-your-taxes-go-16\/\" title=\"Taxes!\">16<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/where-your-taxes-go-17\/\" title=\"Taxes!\">17<\/a>. Also see: <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/government-money-is-our-money.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/sania-mirza-wants-your-money.html\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/tax-relief-for-amitabh-bachchan.html\" title=\"Tax relief for Amitabh Bachchan\">3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My essays on taxes and government: <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/taxes-in-india-your-maid-funds-unani\/\" title=\"Your maid funds Unani -- Amit Varma\">Your maid funds Unani<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/a-beast-called-government\/\" title=\"A beast called government -- Amit Varma\">A beast called government<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,4,28],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where your taxes go: 18 - 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-18\/\" \/>\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: 18 - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Advertising campaigns for governments. 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