“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them”. – Tiberius Caesar
Is it APPEALING OR APPALLING? As a struggling OFW for barely a decade, I therefore went for the second. I supposed my distressing case is a common scenario, - common to all Filipino so I need not to elaborate all the damaging emotional sacrifices to join the league of my motherland’s so-called “Modern Hero”.
This is in response to a case study research titled “The Economic Impacts of International Migration” penned by Tereso Tulao, Michael Cortez and Edward See of DeLaSalle University who bodly narrated: "the possibility of increasing and internalizing the cost of international migrations are considered to reduce the economic ills it has generated".
This profit-making proposal to clarify, were for now, a scheme aiming high to benefit the nation so I can pardon the trio regardless of their subject’s intensity/sensitivity and I’m not going to be one of those who will fiercely bombard them. The proposition sounds clever (for them), but why so at our own bloody expense? Or it is because we were baptized as Hero so they need to see us breathing our last?. Better pay might be a working expat’s reward from toiling abroad but PLEASE note that we’re previously charged or we’re in fact been paying our Government the cost of the tough decision we’ve made for ourselves and for our family – principally, thru our legendary remittances.
Similarly, we’re not liberated with travel taxes fee upon exit to labor abroad and Overseas Employment Certificate fee (OEC) if we successfully got one and return to Country for respite. Both are strictly mandatory. As an abiding citizen, we conformed with the ruling, even it mean shelling out from our emergency funds and letting go a valued day just to pass the great Phil-Overseas-Employment Agency (POEA) queue alongside battalions of fellow Balikbayans EVERYDAY. But for another Tax? Cmon’ that’s insane. I am civilly telling these brainy that: “Hello Guys,”, time for mindset change! we’re nearly reflecting here what we’ve gone through in our beloved Philippines. The pay-cheque in exchange of our terrible homesickness & struggles doesn’t actually meet the costly demands of foreign living and that of emerging financial pressures of our scholars back home. In short, the greater part of us can’t frequently feed an extra mouth in this dry times. We aspire to survive too and save for rainy days, so that if its our call-time to retire, we wouldn’t turn up as country’s additional economic liability. And till the day, I can genuinely trust my hard-earned dollars to those (I bank on) accountable hands in position, there’s no way these Fantastic 3 would demand from me - I’l be the first to volunteer!.
Is it APPEALING OR APPALLING? As a struggling OFW for barely a decade, I therefore went for the second. I supposed my distressing case is a common scenario, - common to all Filipino so I need not to elaborate all the damaging emotional sacrifices to join the league of my motherland’s so-called “Modern Hero”.
This is in response to a case study research titled “The Economic Impacts of International Migration” penned by Tereso Tulao, Michael Cortez and Edward See of DeLaSalle University who bodly narrated: "the possibility of increasing and internalizing the cost of international migrations are considered to reduce the economic ills it has generated".
This profit-making proposal to clarify, were for now, a scheme aiming high to benefit the nation so I can pardon the trio regardless of their subject’s intensity/sensitivity and I’m not going to be one of those who will fiercely bombard them. The proposition sounds clever (for them), but why so at our own bloody expense? Or it is because we were baptized as Hero so they need to see us breathing our last?. Better pay might be a working expat’s reward from toiling abroad but PLEASE note that we’re previously charged or we’re in fact been paying our Government the cost of the tough decision we’ve made for ourselves and for our family – principally, thru our legendary remittances.
Similarly, we’re not liberated with travel taxes fee upon exit to labor abroad and Overseas Employment Certificate fee (OEC) if we successfully got one and return to Country for respite. Both are strictly mandatory. As an abiding citizen, we conformed with the ruling, even it mean shelling out from our emergency funds and letting go a valued day just to pass the great Phil-Overseas-Employment Agency (POEA) queue alongside battalions of fellow Balikbayans EVERYDAY. But for another Tax? Cmon’ that’s insane. I am civilly telling these brainy that: “Hello Guys,”, time for mindset change! we’re nearly reflecting here what we’ve gone through in our beloved Philippines. The pay-cheque in exchange of our terrible homesickness & struggles doesn’t actually meet the costly demands of foreign living and that of emerging financial pressures of our scholars back home. In short, the greater part of us can’t frequently feed an extra mouth in this dry times. We aspire to survive too and save for rainy days, so that if its our call-time to retire, we wouldn’t turn up as country’s additional economic liability. And till the day, I can genuinely trust my hard-earned dollars to those (I bank on) accountable hands in position, there’s no way these Fantastic 3 would demand from me - I’l be the first to volunteer!.
1 comment:
I heard Dr.Tulao talk about his proposal in a certain forum. Honestly, his paper presented nothing but old statistics and passe' premises. From out of the blue lang yung proposal to tax the OFWs. He tried defending his "bright" idea by saying that it's a tax for the brain drain, and will be charged only against those who would forego the requisite to serve the country first. Good intent, wrong premise. Much as OFWs want to serve the Philippines, such service is not properly compensated. So why force them to stay? That would be involuntary servitude! At para nya na ring binuwisan ang mangarap ng magandang buhay!
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