Our distinguished parliament has suggested a new brilliant idea to shut us all up. They want to impose a one fils tax on each minute of cellular phone conversation, regardless of the destination of the call.
واقترحت “قانونية النواب” من اجل تحقيق موارد مالية للصندوق فرض اقتطاعات جديدة على فاتورة الهواتف الخليوية بواقع فلس واحد على كل دقيقة من كل مكالمة هاتفية داخلية أو خارجية أو أرضية، وفلسين اثنين مما كان يسمى فلس الريف والذي تحصله شركات الكهرباء العاملة في المملكة من المشتركين على أن يبقى الفلس الثالث الذي تحصله هذه الشركات مخصصا لكهرباء الريف
I was just thinking this morning about our telecom bliss in Jordan, and how we have five independent telecommunications companies and how we can make phone calls for reasonable money and talk to each other through reliable networks, even if we are hungry and cold.
After the government enforced a law to collect one JD annually from each and every phone line in the country (fixed and cellular) to support public universities, now we are faced with an ADDITIONAL tax on our airtime. And for what?
To provide the government with finances to support the ambiguous, still-in-the-works “Fund for Animal Protection.” What is that anyway? What’s even worse is that the resourceful, new parliament House of Representatives has suggested this tax idea!
This is the same government which has so far failed in generating money from sustainable projects, has liberalized our markets thus causing major price increases, has NOT provided sufficient and adequate alternatives for Jordanians to lead decent lives, has slapped public sector employees with a, what?, 50 JD raise in the face of the tremendous inflation, and has not intervened yet to assist the poor lot in the private sector.
This is the government which sees you, 3azeezi al muwaten, as its prime, Grade A, kharoof with a belly full of money. After starving you and leaving you in the cold, now the government is about to tell you to SHUT UP. In the coming few years, you will not be able to even afford complaining on the phone about gas and food prices.
What is that I hear? Ah, the Silence of the Lambs.
I read the news in the paper this morning and it was a shock, it is so f*** up, instead of figuring out ways to start generating profits from the projects they have privatized, which is practically every company in the public sector, they still think milking us is the best.
The current parliment is being initiative smallah!<br />Not long ago they suggested adding an extra 1 JD tax to the electricity bill to support the sheeps!<br /><br />6ool 3omorhom el.nwwab bass bob9omu! Halla2 smallah fehmu el,le3beh w 9aru ybadru!<br />
They used to say that Jordanians are the richest nation on earth since they almost the only people who spend money on their own government; they used to say also that <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Amman</place></city> is the Arabic capital number one in the high cost of living.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">But now we became a remarkable proverbial in “Kharfaneh” and contentment for raising prices up and adding more and more taxes; it’s no odd anymore to see a protest march against “High cost” on any country with signs written on them “we are not Jordanians” as what exactly happened in Yemen. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And “now the government is about to tell you to SHUT UP”!! Well dear Toloy I believe the successive governments have been telling us that from years ago, and the trick of raising prices up is actually only a part of that! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Another post I agree with <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</span></span> I started to have more common thoughts with you than I thought I’d have.</p>
LOL! how cheap… ay law ybee3o sayyaret na2ib wa7ad bejeebo elli bedhom yjeebo men "el5awareef"! 2al fils 2al, msih haik el natafeh!
LOOOL , sob7ab allah , leas besret al daf3 al 5awa had !! <br /><br />ufffff its the time to find another country to live in … <br /><br />
<p>C’mon, what does the government have to do with this? Key word: parliament suggested.</p>
<p>You know, this might be a good thing, maybe Jordanians will finally set their financial priorities straight and spend their money smarter. Instead of complaining how their salary is barely enough for cigarettes, mobile, transportation, and then wondering how are we supposed to eat.</p>
<p>And Tololy, is it smart to spend your money talking on the phone if food and gas prices are high? Shouldn’t you start saving? :P</p>
This is a disaster waiting to happen, just sit back and watch it unfold. The Jordanian society is about to tumble upon itself any minute now…
Sk8erboi, I don’t think most Jordanians are leading the luxury life you seem to hint at in your comment. A lot of people don’t have enough money to stay warm, and they don’t have enough money to buy the majority of government-called "luxury" foods (which are basically everything except bread)., and they can hardly afford transportation costs which are also increasing due to inflation. So I do have a problem with the government, this time and every time aided by the parliament, enforcing new taxes! We can hardly breathe as it is!<br /><br />Ya3ni kolo zift o oskoto. 7atta 7aki 3al telephone sar ‘3ali! kaman shwai they will tax the air we breathe and put the money in an environmental fund.<br /><br />Oh and regarding the last line in your comment, I do need to save so I guess I’ll throw my cellphone in the sea and stop SMSing people, I don’t even like making phone calls and I can barely manage!<br /><br /><br />
Well, humans are animals, you know… Maybe we can get some proyection from that project!
I know that there are people in Jordan who can’t afford to stay warm or eat, that’s a given, no one saying there are not, and I’m not trying to defend the government, I’m not an economist and I can’t judge their economical startegy.</p>
<p>And regarding my last line, I was only making a joke about the <em>"you will not be able to even afford complaining on the phone about gas and food prices"</em> bit, so don’t take it too seriously!</p>
I don’t know what to say… this is very depressing! All we can do is sit back and watch the poor get poorer and the rich get filthier, soon enough the middle class will no longer exist..</p>
<p>y3ny o la 2emta???</p>
sk8erboi; it’s not about taxing mobile’s talk! It’s about EVERYTHING; Tololy’s absolutely right, they claim that the citizen has a role to play to help in this inflation, and what is that?! Giving up his luxury which is </span></span><span class="commentbody"><i>basically everything except bread. </i>And the idea itself of taxing mobile’s talk is really ridiculous and disgusting, there must be a thousand reasonable way other than that to get the money they need!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="commentbody">It’s simply a “sucking people’s blood” act and HEY people you don’t have the right even to feel the pain… you only should watch, relax and enjoy.
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Make the world a better place, get Qwaider laid, then punch him in the face
Indeed, the citizens have been brought up to be sheep. For too many years, the people have been led to believe that they are helpless in such situations. The system has left the people without a voice, and the government would have us believe that is still the case.<br /><br />But the times are changing and the people not only have a voice, but they also have the ability to become powerful. But if the people finally rise up and extend themselves, they need to be carefult to do so only for the good of the country and its citizenry.<br /><br />This is where the government has fallen short. All of the imposed taxes and systems are not for the good of the people or the betterment of the country, but instead to line the pockets of the handful of corrupt officials in charge. Meanwhile the people starve and are bled dry. But you can only starve and bleed a man so much. Eventually those who are becoming fat and rich are going to pay a heavy price for their greed.<br /><br />
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Another per minute charge on cel phone use would really suck. I mean isn’t it bad enough that we have a per minute charge on land lines. Most other countries pay a fixed minimal fee for local land line calls that gives them unlimited access, but then again many countries also have unlimited internet, and we have to put up with draconian bandwidth caps :(