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Does Budget 2023 suggest that Singapore remains a ‘nanny state’?
The challenge for the state as “nanny” is to empower citizens and firms to take ownership of their future rather than wait passively for direction from above
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The Singapore Government has made extensive use of taxes and incentives to influence the choices of citizens and firms.
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Terence Ho
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Singapore has been described by local and foreign observers as a “nanny state”, one that is overprotective of citizens or interferes unduly in their private lives.
Then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew made no apologies for this, asserting that “if Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one”.
