⚡ SILENCE IS THE INSULT
Budgets don’t just speak through announcements.
They speak louder through what they deliberately ignore.
This year, Nirmala Sitharaman delivered a budget with ZERO updates for salaried taxpayers.
Not a tweak.
Not a threshold change.
Not a single rupee of relief.
That silence wasn’t oversight.
It was contempt.
1️⃣ zero WORDS, zero RUPEES — A DELIBERATE CHOICE
Salaried taxpayers fund the state with clockwork certainty:
Tax is deducted before the salary hits the account
No loopholes
No deferrals
No creative accounting
And what did they get in return?
Nothing.
Not even acknowledgment.
When a government ignores its most compliant citizens, it isn’t neutral — it’s exploitative.
2️⃣ THE MOST CONVENIENT TARGET: HONEST SALARIED INCOME
Why does the state keep squeezing salaried taxpayers?
Because they’re easy.
Because they can’t hide.
Because they can’t negotiate.
This government survives by bleeding the same group every year, confident that obedience will be rewarded with silence — not relief.
That’s not fiscal prudence.
That’s lazy governance.
3️⃣ MONEY FOR LUXURY? SUDDENLY THERE’S NO SHORTAGE
Now comes the part that burns.
₹15 CRORE.
A one-day luxury trip.
Casually sanctioned.
For extravagance, the treasury opens effortlessly.
For honest taxpayers? The cupboard is suddenly bare.
This isn’t about affordability.
It’s about priorities.
4️⃣ NO ACCOUNTABILITY, NO REMORSE, NO APOLOGY
There was no explanation.
No justification.
No reassurance.
Just the assumption that salaried indians will:
Pay quietly
Complain online
Then move on
That assumption has powered this model for years — and it’s starting to rot the social contract.
5️⃣ THIS IS HOW TRUST DIES — NOT WITH ANGER, BUT DISGUST
people expected disappointment.
What they got was betrayal.
When governments stop even pretending to care about a class that pays the most consistently, trust doesn’t erode slowly — it collapses.
You cannot endlessly tax discipline and reward excess without consequences.
🧨 FINAL WORD: SHAME IS THE RIGHT WORD
This budget didn’t just ignore salaried taxpayers.
It humiliated them.
Unlimited money for spectacle.
Zero relief for the people who fund it all.
No reform.
No empathy.
No conscience.
SHAME. SHAME.
Because a government that treats its most honest citizens like an ATM isn’t governing — it’s looting with paperwork.
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