If I were a Candidate
Sometimes it is hard to change the local policies at home, even if you are the one in charge; however there are always things that would make the change smoother even if you know that it will take a time to happen.
Still, we need to be realistic about our demands, there are things that cannot be changed easily and it is waste of time to even try to change them. Therefore, we better focus our efforts on fighting for essential demands, which can be obtained by a single signature by the decision maker in charge.
Such demands would definitely make Jordanian lives easier, more productive and compatible with the state of the art technologies.
1) Taxes and Meaningless fees on some items like Laptops, Desktops and computer accessories, Still Cameras, Video Cameras and Photography accessories4 matter why
2) Importing books should be tax-free, as I believe that this is the second best option since getting the government to sponsor importing books seems out of the question.
The above-mentioned suggestions would surely sound more realistic and doable if we could find other ways to replace the sources of tax money from those suggested tax -exempted items. So here, I suggest the following:
1-) Increase the tax value on cigarettes, hookahs and related products.
2-) Strictly, enforce applying of traffic laws and regulations with no exceptions.
3-) Activate the role of the environmental police in different parts of the kingdom. This would surely bring double benefits; it would increase them amounts of collected fines and keep our environment free of harm.
As a candidate, I promise I will focus all my efforts to turn those suggestions into real actions for the benefit of Jordan, country and people.
As a concerned citizen, I do have many other suggestions. But since I can’t promise accomplishing them as it seems hard to do so because they are either controversial or require some tough rounds with business whales who either have close ties with decision makers or even are decision makers themselves. What I can promise in this regard is talking about these issues and raising the public awareness of the importance of implementing them hoping that this would eventually be realized. One of these suggestions would be getting the private companies to give back to society 10% of their net profit and of their advertising campaigns .This money will be invested in financing charity projects and education and health organization. The other suggestion would be enforcing what I call ” Mosque Tax” which is to collect the sum of 1 JD and allocate this money to maintaining mosques cleanness, paying the Imam salary, implementing mobile signals blocker and renewing the staled carpets
So people, these are my promises and this is what I can do if I got elected.
Vote for me or may God not let you vote.
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I’d vote for you. Except I can’t vote in this country.
I’m hoping we won’t need to wait till 2011 for you to run.balki you get the Prime Ministry after the elecions:)
I’d vote for you if i wasnt myslef a candidate
although i might differ with u on some points here
but we all know that what candidates say before the elections is forgotten after they are in abadali.so ma btefre2 who wins.kollo wa7ad
Dave:
Thank you mate, Pizza and Burger on the way.
Salam
and asking me what I do love you ? be sure you will be in my crew.
Malage6
No, I wont forget it; I always remember my lies.
Yeah, the sales tax is truly unfair because it is imposed on technically EVERYBODY, and not only on the elite. Did you know that if you buy any foreign food product (when I say foreign I mean non-Arab and non-American products) you also pay a 4 percent tax? That’s very unfair. But from what I understood, is that books are tax-free in Jordan, however, CDs and DVDs are not exempted.
As for the mosque tax, I don’t understand that part. There is a Ministry for Islamic Affairs, and they’re allocated with a certain amount of money every year, why should we pay taxes if it’s the responsibility of this ministry to maintain mosques? We obviously DO NOT need any more taxes to be burdened with!
I think this small-step-big-change approach is definitely what this country (and many of its Arab peers) need at this stage.
Although it is not my place to say, but i think that enforcing environmental laws and traffic laws should be brought higher on the list of public concerns. Amman is growing metropolis, there are many many cars in the street, and unfortunately many of them have their exhaust system in a bad condition. All these toxic fumes make it really hard to breathe sometimes.
So, i think that the effects of simply enforcing exhaust and toxic fumes traffic laws are tremendous. A cleaner air, healthier citizens, maybe even better crops. Heck! the violation tickets alone for this matter could also generate a hefty sum!!
Are u sure you’re not a Lebanese politician?? May be you’re better,at least you will ‘remember your lies’as you stated..
Since I can’t vote for you,I can offer you my moral support:D
No vote for you!
“1-) Increase the tax value on cigarettes”
HUH?
Don’t worry, I can’t vote anyway
if you may allow me Jad…
Mala2et’s comment reminds me of this:
“If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.”