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Taxes paid for road use must end up in projects seen on the road. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto stressed this point following the passage in the Senate of a bill setting a day to remember road crash victims and a bill almost doubling the road users’ tax in the Hous

Sa ilalim ng proposed 2020 national budget, dodoblehin ang budget for tree planting – mula sa kasalukuyang P2.6 billion to P5.15 billion. The DENR’s National Greening Program is one of the very few programs that will be gifted with almost a 100% budget increase. Budgets for

Increased defense spending should be accompanied by more purchases of locally-made defense and police equipment, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “There should be local dividends from the equipment shopping spree,” Recto said. He cited the quality of the products of

Mag-di-Disyembre na, ni anino ng Salary Standardization Law V wala pa. Malamig na simoy ng hangin, wala pa rin ang panukala na nagtataas ng sahod ni titser ang ating naamoy. When will it come out of the Palace kitchen? “Please expedite” is not one marginal note we would like to

Mr. John was a national flag carrier who planted Filipino greatness in other lands and in the minds of his people that yes, a poor promdi like him can. We can tally the jobs his business created, the taxes paid, and the earnings it generated, but the inspiration he gave our young

Government should create a “digital map” of government projects and programs that will be implemented next year, to include “livestreaming” of big-ticket public works projects. “Projects should be geo-tagged, and there should be an app in which the status of a project is just a

Government should end the scourge of “artificial spending” by preventing the transfer of allotments from one agency to another in order to cover up the failure to spend.Ang nangyayari kasi ngayon, para lang masabi na “obligated” na ang allotment ay pinapasa ito sa ibang ahensya.

While every literature states that P4.1 trillion is the national budget for 2020, in reality, it is not. The real amount is P4,316.3 trillion, P216.3 billion higher than what is commonly stated. The P216.3 billion represents the Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA). While the release

DepEd’s school-building budget for 2020 should be augmented in the light of the damage sustained by the 500 classrooms and 700 school buildings during last month’s earthquakes in Southern Mindanao. Congress cannot be impervious to a tragedy which threatens the schooling of