The Online Citizen, 18 Sep 2008, Tan Kin Lian
I find the incentives implemented during the past years to encourage procreation (i.e. Singaporeans to have more children) to be unnecessarily complicated and discriminatory.
Each time that the Government implemented a new package to address the failure of the past packages, there will be loud howls of protests from parents who missed out.
The parents who fall on the right side of the cut-off date were delighted and thanked the Government for its generosity. This breeds a culture of selfishness, where each Singaporean thinks about his or her personal benefit, rather than what is fair to everybody in society.
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