After Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong’s Budget speech on Tuesday, friends and acquaintances’ WhatsApp messages came loud and fast.
“The Government wants to penalise the middle class,” one friend grumbled in response to tax increases for high-end cars. She had planned to buy a bigger car to accommodate new members of her family.
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