1/ This is voodoo economics. Lets start with high real estate prices being a problem. Are there not other ways of dealing with an asset price bubble here?Rraising Stamp Duty, a national register of real estate, gradually escalating property tax, are some measures...
2/ The trouble is that these steps call for better honest administration that is non-corruptible and fair. But that remains elusive in India. The fact is that while property prices may have come down, the venality has not. There's still a lot of under-the-table deals.
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1/n Thread.. The loss of a free and independent press is more worthy of lamentation than a few points off the GDP figures or a fall of the currency. Governments everywhere have offered security and prosperity in return for a curtailment of our liberties and a compliant press.
2/n "He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."
- Benjamin Franklin
3/n “It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf