How to cut India's fiscal deficit? Stop paying taxes!

When the government got an unexpected pay check in the form of 3G and broadband auction payments it seemed like the fiscal deficit monster was finally on the way to be slayed.

But it seems our politicians never learn -- in any case why blame them; there is absolutely no pressure on them to perform or to stop the plundering of national resources.

Govt to gobble up 3G cash; wants Rs 50,000 cr more -- said rediff.com

So the more taxes we pay, the more we will be told every year that India is deep in fiscal deficit. While daylight robbery in various forms -- from the Commonwealth Games contracts to the iron ore mining in Bellary -- goes on unhindered.

Democracy was supposed to bring accountability to rulers. Here we see them exploiting differences in the ruled community to plunder away.

Is there no recourse for tax-paying citizens? Yes, just stop paying your taxes.

Demand that the government stop paying lazy and corrupt bureaucrats.

Well, it may sound like a steep ask, but it is not.

If the tax payers finally come together and demand accountability no government can hold out for long. It is time to do that instead of forking up cash every time a bunch of unscrupulous and effete politicians ask us to pay up.

Time to tell our leaders: Act now or get out!

The terror seems not yet over - not even a temporary respite is in sight. Today police defused around 15 live bombs in Surat. Yes, the killers are at large and audacious enough to go around and plant some dozen more bombs in public places. This is something India has never seen before. Earlier, there was at least a few months' lull after a serial bomb blast before the killers struck again.
What we see here is a total failure of the police and intelligence machinery. Not only have they been able to nab the terrorists, they have not even been able to bring enough pressure on them to make them lie low. It just shows all their claims of arresting the perpatrators of all those earlier terror strikes was pure gas.
The Union government is blaming state police and states are blaming the Centre. In all this din what is forgotten is our police and intelligence machinery have failed completely, and have left the Indian society helpless victims of terror. Are we paying taxes just for our politicians to move around in armoured vehicles with commando escort and for our police officers to pick up and harass law-abiding common citizens whose only crime is that they lack political connections?
We have been abandoned by our rulers and our police, the very people whom we pay to help keep this a law-abiding and secure society.
It is time to tell these busybodies to go nab the terrorists or up and leave. Indian people can and will manage such threats. But we do not need such parasites eating our money and not being able to capture a bunch of terrorists who have killed over a hundred people and are still terrorising us.
Stop the politicking, stop the religious appeasement. Act now, or get out!