If you’re an ordinary indian who works hard, pays taxes, sits in traffic, inhales polluted air, loses years of life expectancy, and still struggles to build savings, it’s not a personal failing.
It’s a system designed to reward everyone except the citizens funding it.
While you juggle EMIs, rent, inflation, and terrible public infrastructure, a parallel india exists — made of bureaucrats and netas whose lives run on your money.
They get the perks.
They get the pensions.
They get the comfort.
You get the bill.
1. You Pay Exorbitant Taxes — They Build Generational Wealth
Most middle-class indians cough up:
income tax
GST
fuel tax
road tax
property tax
cess on cess on cess
Meanwhile, many low-level bureaucrats and operators magically build wealth that no salary can explain.
Your tax is their investment.
Their perks are your expenses.
2. You Travel on “Roads” — They Travel in Free Cars
You sit in dust, potholes, broken flyovers, and endless jams.
Your shock absorbers die before the car loan ends.
But netas glide in free SUVs with red beacons (or worse — taxpayer-funded Fortuners with convoys).
They don’t even hit potholes because the road clears for them.
3. You Fight for air Purifiers — They Get Free health Care
You breathe PM2.5.
Your lungs, your kids, your parents — everyone pays the price.
Meanwhile, they get:
✔️ free government hospitals
✔️ free private treatment
✔️ free medical reimbursements
✔️ VIP access
All of it — from your tax money.
4. You Stress Over EMIs — They Get government Housing for Life
You pay rent or buy a house at 12% interest.
They stay in sprawling bungalows or subsidised flats in Lutyens, Mumbai, Delhi, chennai —
FREE or near-free.
And after retirement?
They get pensions.
POCKET MONEY FOR LIFE.
From you.
5. You Pay electricity Bills — They Don’t Even Pay For ACs Running 24/7
government bungalows?
Electricity free.
Water-free.
Phones free.
Internet free.
Travel free.
Fuel-free
.
This isn’t governance.
This is royalty funded by commoners.
6. You Wait in Line — They Cut Every Queue
Passport office?
Government hospital?
Airport?
Railway?
Land registry?
Electricity office?
There are two Indias:
The one that waits.
And the one that walks through.
7. They Deliver Nothing — But Get Everything
For all these privileges, what do citizens get?
broken infrastructure
sewage on roads
The rivers turned into poison
endless corruption
collapsing cities
toxic air
water scarcity
decade-long files
no accountability
You pay Scandinavian-level taxes.
You get sub-Saharan services.
8. The Biggest Insult? You’re Told to “Adjust”
The government delivers nothing.
But the citizen must:
adjust
tolerate
adapt
manage
compromise
The system is designed so that:
They enjoy, you endure.
⚔️ FINAL WORD
india isn’t poor.
Indians aren’t poor.
The system that bleeds the people dry is the real poverty.
Your taxes should build your nation — not someone else’s bungalow.
Your money should fund development — not perks.
Your hard work should create your future — not government empires.
Until accountability arrives, india will remain a country where:
Citizens survive.
Officials thrive.
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