TRAIN TALK
Netizens have mixed reactions after the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released a list showing how prices of basic good and commodities will increase starting this month as a result of added excise tax under the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion or Train law.
A netizen named Wen Pa Syempre wrote, “Domino effects man gyud na. Kung gipatungan ang mga items, aw, mag-expect nalang ta. Ang makaluluoy kai ang pobre sama nako gihapon.”
(The increase does not come as a surprise since the domino effect is at work here. It’s the poor people like me who are at the losing end.)
For Ioannis Postas, “(If) this will be implemented, grabe kaau og patong ang mga tindahan labi na ang sari-sari store jud ani ron (we now have to deal with high cost of goods specially in sari-sari stores) and I don’t support this law!”
But Virginia Esther is all for the new tax impositions: “I agree with the Train law, as long as di kukurakotin ng mga nasa gobyerno and mga tax na ito (those in government will not steal the tax to be generated from this law). I support Duterte.”
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