Pipi thankyou. You are right in that the politicians do not care about middle class votes but they care deeply about our money. If we stop buying big ticket items for a few months the indirect tax collections will drop and that might concentrate a few minds. Of course it may affect profit margins of companies and their share prices but this will only be temporary because the pent up demand will c0mpensate in the end. It is not just taxes that you pay when you buy anything because you have to provide your income tax number or the Permanent Account Number ( PAN ) which then gives the income tax babus the opportunityto harass you.
You have to understand that here politicians and civil servants commit crimes but the punishment is suffered by innocent citizens and tax payers. For instance there is a very high level of traffic accidents on our roads with consequent deaths and injuries. The reason is that no one knows how to drive because everyone gets a licence by paying and few people actually take a driving test. Who issues driving licences? The police. So how do they propose to cut the number of accidents. They build speed breakers or bumps in the road anywhere they like and some so high that my car scrapes its underside no matter how slow I drive. So I suffer enormous frustrations as a punishment for police corruption. Similarly terrorists and gangsters regularly have 3 or 4 passports under different identities. Who issues passports? Civil servants in the Home Ministry. So what is the solution. Indians are the only people who have to suffer the humiliation of immigration check when returning home. Even in a police state like Saudi Arabia its citizens just walk through but here we have to queue for hours. How do we let the blood suckers know that enough is enough? Hit them where it hurts I say.