INDIA’S MOST LOYAL CITIZENS, TREATED LIKE SUSPECTS
Foreign trips? Show documents.
Show bank statements.
Show PAN history.
Show travel companions.
Show the universe.
The message is loud and clear: If you’re a middle-class taxpayer, you must constantly prove you’re not a criminal.
But if you’re a billionaire corporate darling, a fugitive loan defaulter, or a political heavyweight—don’t worry, no one’s coming for you.
This is not governance.
This is intimidation disguised as accountability.
1. THE GREAT indian DOUBLE STANDARD
Scrutiny for the powerless. Silence for the powerful.
Notices rain on ordinary taxpayers like monsoon floods. But where is this laser-focused scrutiny when the stakes are actually massive?
Hindenburg allegations?
The entire nation waited for answers. All we got was noise, PR spin, and dust.PM CARES transparency?
Funds collected. Questions blocked. Accountability deleted.Corporate capitalists accused of manipulation?
They get awards, not audits.Political scams?
Everyone knows the names. Investigations mysteriously take decades.Mega tax evasion by big fish?
Settled behind closed doors. “Adjustment.” “Reconciliation.” “Technical error.”Loan write-offs and fugitives?
They fly first-class out of the country while taxpayers fund the loss.
But ask a salaried employee why they went to Singapore, and suddenly the system wakes up with full josh.
2. THE MIDDLE CLASS: TARGET PRACTICE FOR A BROKEN SYSTEM
Because you’re the only group that actually pays.
You earn. You save. You file returns on time.
And that’s why you’re the easiest target.
You can’t run.
You can’t hide.
You can’t hire expensive lawyers.
You can’t “settle” things privately.
So the government squeezes you—again and again—because you’re the only one who plays by the rules.
3. LAND REGISTRATION: THE OPEN SECRET NO ONE TOUCHES
If the government truly wanted to catch black money, this is where it begins.
Every indian knows the truth:
Land deals = 40% white + 60% black.
4% of the black = “fees” for registration officials.
This is the motherlode of unaccounted wealth.
If the Income Tax Department truly wanted to crack down on black money, it’d start here.
But they won’t.
Why?
Because this is where politicians, contractors, businessmen, and local power networks operate.
Touching this would mean challenging the ecosystem that actually funds power.
So they leave it untouched.
And instead, they chase the software engineer who booked a vacation to Dubai.
4. WHEN GOVERNANCE STARTS LOOKING LIKE HARASSMENT
And the honest citizen pays the highest price.
There’s nothing wrong with financial checks.
There’s everything wrong with selective checks.
Why are taxpayers subjected to:
grilling,
documentation marathons,
endless explanations,
assumptions of guilt…
…while the truly powerful glide untouched?
Because this isn’t about integrity.
It’s about convenience.
It’s easy to bully the middle class.
It’s hard to confront the ones who actually break the system.
5. INDIA’S MOST RELIABLE CITIZENS DESERVE BETTER
Stop treating honest taxpayers like punching bags.
The middle class funds the nation.
Runs the economy.
Pays taxes without drama.
Doesn’t protest.
Doesn’t loot banks.
Doesn’t flee the country.
Yet they’re the first to be questioned
and
the last to be heard.
This is not incompetence.
This is a deliberate prioritization of the path of least resistance.
CONCLUSION: IF THE SYSTEM WAS FAIR, india WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE
Investigate land registrations.
Investigate scams.
Investigate corporate evasion.
Investigate political corruption.
Investigate mega loan write-offs.
Investigate black money hubs.
Do all of that and THEN come after ordinary taxpayers.
Until then, this isn’t governance.
This is a nation run on hypocrisy, powered by the sweat of the very people it chooses to harass.
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