{"id":101098,"date":"2020-04-13T16:33:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101098"},"modified":"2020-04-13T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:34:01","slug":"how-government-can-earn-billions-without-taxing-save-farmers-and-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/13\/how-government-can-earn-billions-without-taxing-save-farmers-and-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Government Can Earn Billions Without Taxing, Save Farmers and Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has proven how disastrous the western open economic system is without checks and balances. This is the perfect time to invest in a local production of food, transport, storage, and retail. The government must get back to the business of food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to\ndo so, the government must have large and distributed storage facilities,\ntransport systems, warehouses and outlets (or agreements with commercial\noutlets). It is a substantial investment but it pays off quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final consumer price must be based on the world market prices of those commodities with a local discount. Retail, storage and transport legs of the chain can be allocated a set cost per tonne. Once they are taken out, the price to be paid to the farmer can be calculated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food\nimportation must be only done by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The price of intermediaries must be based on the set price per tonne and it should not be increased other than for inflation. If any government-owned intermediary runs at a loss, their efficiency must be increased profitably by taking whatever action needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This method will earn the government billions of rupees every year in profit without having to tax people. Singapore follows a similar model in many industries (agriculture is not a major industry in Singapore) that is working very successfully. The western dogma that governments cannot do business is proven wrong. What is required is a commercially viable business model for the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara The pandemic has proven how disastrous the western open economic system is without checks and balances. This is the perfect time to invest in a local production of food, transport, storage, and retail. The government must get back to the business of food. In order to do so, the government must have large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}