The mayor of shanghai will give this man a key to the city.

some people get in the groove with covid stuff.

columbus had covid several times. that is why they buried him in so many different countries.

It would be nice to know how much was disbursed to low income earners from Social Services and also the household income and whether the household were below the poverty line.

Man does not live by breadbasket alone and the middle class who could not likeley qualify for food stamps also benefited from the VAT free items, but these would be offset in their other bills

But the roblem with the vat exemption is that the rich who eat basmati rice , cold pressed olive oil and king arthur flour made out like bandits.

I said before, take the duty off eggs and chicken, that will benefit the poor and middle class.
The rich doe nor eat chicken leg quarters.

For a time in Trinidad they took vat off food. But had to raise it to 15% otherwise.

I think they reversed it since.

not to worry. we eat our own rice. Mahatma.

unlikely. they disappeared the former employees pension fund.

Please get more brazilian chicken. The american chicken too expensive.

Give the turkish another chance. They have very nice stainless steel implements

Well, they should be embarassed to bring anyone to look at their operation.

Their IT system is truly messed up. They cannot even replace expired cards. Now there is a cumbersome system where some people need to renew their cards and others do not.

Reminds of a place where I worked years ago. the computers were falling to pieces and we had to be creative to churn out the work. The bosses were completely oblivious to this.

Then the boss had the opportunity to pitch to a govt muck a muck for a contract that could bring in substatial income. and told the muck a muck that he had "state of the art" computers to do the needful.

I told the bosse's son the computers were outdated and to try to get out of the visit. They tried. I got a phone call at 10 pm and he said the muck a muck insisted on seeing the state of the art computers. They were waiting for me when I got there and the visitors were already in the main computer room and watched while I booted up the system. For 15- 20 minutes and then the computers were extra slow.

The son was horrified, but I had warned him. This convinced them to upgrade the system due to y2k. But the muck a muck refused to give them an audience after that.

Turns out it was our ingenuity that was state of the art. But a couple of us lost our jobs for causing them to spend extra money on computer as they could not understand that the computers would revert to year 1901 once y2k rolled out.

The budget is coming up.
The change would be more dramatic to remove the duty on chicken and eggs.
Make all foods duty free.

Then have 7.5% vat on all unprepared food.

Then still 10% at restaurants.

Where you cannot be a bigot toward race, gender and sexual orientation, you have to improvise.

Only unvaxxed and fat people remain as targets.