Tax Grace Period for New Businesses

PNoy posted a Facebook Message about the TESDA. I responded.

"Sino ba binibigyan mo ng employment, ang mga TRAINING PROVIDERS or ang mga GRADUATES? Patong-patong na ang pinag-aralan ng mga tao, walang mahanap na mapapasukang trabaho. Paano kasi, pag malaking negosyo (malaking kotong), may Tax Grace Period lalo na pag sa Economic Zone mag locate. Pero mga NEW SMALL and MEDIUM BUSINESSES eh tina-taga na agad ng taxes kahit hindi pa nakaka-lipad. Try mo kunin ang statistics ng Business Name Registration per year, then correlate mo in other data that will measure the medium-term and long-term period survival of the business, then you can make analysis of the data and implement policies to address the problem of business mortality especially at take-off stage.

Dapat pag new established business, TAX-FREE dapat para maka-lipad. Aanohin mo yang buwis pag pinapatay ang taxpayer?

On EDSA Celebration

Nilabanan ang diktadorya, hangad ang kalayaan, pero kahirapan ang napala, kasi ang demokrasyang pinaghirapan ng mga taong bayan ay na hi-jack ng pamumuno ng mga oligarchs. Tyranny of power, replaced by tyranny of poverty.

Law-Enforcement Agency ng Government - Toilet Paper lang ng mga Senador

LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCY NG GOBYERNO - TOILET PAPER LANG NG MGA SENADOR

Today, I read the news posted by ABS-CBN in Facebook titled, "Five people were arrested by officials of the PNP-CIDG in Rizal for allegedly selling copies of the sex video of slain actor Ramgen Revilla and his girlfriend Janelle Manahan".

My reaction is funny. Pag "Personal Benefit" ng Senador, aggressive ang gobyerno umaksyon. Pero pag benefit ng general public, walang action ang gobyerno. May mas malala pa dyan na problema, marami pa ring mga real estate agents openly handing out real estate fliers and selling real estate openly na walang license from PRC, hindi hinuhuli. Ehhh June 29, 2009 pa kaya approved ang RESA Law Professionalized na yang Real Estate Service, parang mga Lawyers and Doctors na ang standard, required na ang license. The licensed ones are being put out of business financially because the colorums compose 95% of the sales agents. Paano aactionan, eh mga Senador connected sa mga real estate developers na nag coddle and exploit ng mga colorums.

Hehehehe. Gobyerno talaga, parang personal toilet paper lang ng mga Senador.

Stop the Topsoil Harvesting in Mindanao

STOP THE TOPSOIL HARVESTING

TOPSOIL quarrying is the worse kind of natural resource exploitation. It takes 500 years to naturally add one inch of topsoil to land. The fertility of land is based on the thickness and quality of topsoil. Without sufficient thickness and good quality of topsoil, we can't plant and our agriculture in the future would perish.

I have heard that there are systematic mineral dealers and miners there in Mindanao that sells topsoil to foreign ships docked at sea that are pretending to be mineral buyers. Our people are being deceived as they are told that those ships are buying soil so they can filter the gold and other minerals. Please spread this information to our people and find a way to mobilize our troops in the grounds to prevent the movement of our topsoil. There must be an IMMEDIATE STOP of the removal of topsoil from its original land! (Rltr. John R. Petalcorin)

People Power Means Purchasing Power

For many politicians, people empowerment means downloading more responsibilities and obligations to the people. For me, people empowerment means free market policies that will increase earning capacity and purchasing power of the people. I believe that when people have freedom to choose, they will buy the products and services that are more efficient, which will naturally put the inferior products and services out of business, yes including administrations of government. When you put more power on government, it will supress and exploit the market, and you are tying down your own people into a self-made bondage. We want lesser power of the government, more power to the open society.

Jose Rizal may not be Your Hero

Dec 30 po ngayon. Gunitain natin ang pagka-bayani ni Jose Rizal na aktibista, reformista, and political exhortationist sa kanyang panahon. Ang tanong, kung ikaw ba ay nabubuhay sa panahon ni Jose Rizal, ikaw ba ay supporter niya or pinagtawanan mo lang siya habang ikaw ay nag-eenjoy sa hindi maka-taong sistema? Aber aber? Kung hindi ka sumusuporta sa mga tao na nakikipaglaban sa bulok na sistema, wala kang karapatan mag celebrate ngayon, you have no sense of ownership of Jose Rizal's heroism. Sa totoo lang.

CAN'T STOP ILLEGAL LOGGING IN MINDANAO

QUESTION: Cmdr John, they say it is illegal logging that caused the devastation in Mindanao. What can you say about this?

ANSWER: Housing is one of the primary needs of human being. Man cannot live without house. There are six layers of housing materials according to budget.

(1) VERY POOR - Grass or Nipa roof, bamboo structure, whatever lumber available nearby by self harvesting, forget the flooring.

(2) POOR - Nipa roof, coco lumber structure, whatever wood available nearby by self-harvesting, forget the flooring.

(3) LOWER MIDDLE CLASS - Ordinary galvanized roof, whatever wood available in market, wood or bamboo flooring.

(4) MIDDLE CLASS - Galvanized roof, wood and cement structure, cemented floor.

(5) UPPER MIDDLE CLASS - Galvanized roof, cement and steel structure, ceramic tile floor.

(6) RICH - Galvanized or brick roof, cement and steel structure, marble floor, first class wood finish and furnishings.

ANALYSIS

Mindanao is homeland of 2 million impoverished households. The poor consume so much wood for housing and cooking fuel.

As long as poverty persists, no one can stop the Mindanaoans from harvesting their trees. When you talk about illegal loggingin Mindanao, you are talking about more than a million violators, halos lahat mahihirap.

After Sendong destroyed their houses, they have to build new houses. It means there is going to be a surge in demand for lumber, more trees is going to be cut. All the tree cutting for the past 20 years, they are all gonna harvest such huge volume in 2012 to be able to rebuild.