Tamil Nadu Express - தங்களை அன்புடன் வரவேற்கிறது - Swaroop Kutti

- Increasing the general fare is very difficult thing now a days, as the new flavour called "poor" (i.e. a person who does not pay Income tax and holds a BPL/Antyodaya card) is currently very hot in the Indian politics known for appeasement of identified section of people. - Based on the current election results, the political parties are giving more importance to become messiah of poor than becoming messiah of particular caste(s)/religion(s).
- The middle class is bound to suffer even more than ever before as more and more subsidies, loan waiver etc shall be targeted towards the "poor", the money has to come primarily from the Middle Class (esp. the tax paying ones).
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The rich ones are usually a few steps ahead of govt and are often hand in gloves with the ruling class, their assets/incomes are growing much faster than others.
- It looks like the subsidy borne by IR in carrying paxs in non-ac classes shall continue to increase in the years to come.