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SDP Manifesto - Coggle Diagram
SDP Manifesto
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Income inequality
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Scrap GST for essential items, raise GST for luxury goods
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Governance
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Establish an independent ministerial salary commission for each financial year. Such a commission shall compile and publish annually the salaries of ministers, along with their other commercial interests.
Do away with variable bonuses such as the GDP Bonus and the Performance Bonus which together can come up to as much as 22 months of a minister’s basic salary. Instead, ministerial pay should comprise fixed salary components.
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Move the Corrupt Practices Investigation Board (CPIB) out of the Prime Minister's Office and empower it to investigate all ministers without needing the approval of the President of Singapore.
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**AIMS:
- Reduce costs and waiting time of buying a home
- Preserve value of home as asset for retirees**
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Can own HDB and private property, as long as private property is overseas
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AIMS
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Use Electric Vehicles
Incentivise and mandate motorists to switch to electric vehicles; the target is to have 25% of cars on roads be electric ones by 2030, 50% by 2040 and fully electrified by 2050
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Significantly upgrade Singapore's Nationally Determined Contributions that we signed under the Paris Agreement to lower and eventually remove harmful emissions
Build Smart, Cool Buildings
Mandate the reduction of air-conditioning in government buildings and offices and increase their internal temperatures.
This should be carried out under the Public Sector Taking the Lead on Environmental Sustainability programme
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Amending carbon tax rate
Unless an effective mechanism can be found to prevent the end-consumer from ultimately shouldering the carbon tax, the SDP does not recommend increasing the carbon tax rate at this time
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AIMS: Make access to healthcare more affordable, more timely
- Increase the number of hospital beds, doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel
- Increase intake of medical, nursing and other healthcare students at the tertiary level, or make it easier for private specialists and general practitioners to serve in public hospitals
- Enact legislation to ensure that every single citizen (and PR who resides in SG for more than 6 months each year) is covered by a basic healthcare policy regardless of age, employment status or gender.
- Establish a single-payer universal healthcare system in which the government manages a central health investment fund. This fund comprises contributions from the government, citizens and PRs. (Citizens and PRs contribute $500/year per person - and this will make up 16% of the total fund)
- Individuals have to co-pay 10% of medical fees, capped at $2,000 per calendar year
- Variation in quantum of contribution: PRs should pay more, while lower income pay less, and the government fully subsidises those who can't afford to pay
- Removal of GST for drugs and health services
- Employers of all foreign workers who reside in Singapore, and who utilise the local health service will be mandated by law to buy comprehensive hospitalisation insurance for the worker. This law should include employers of foreign domestic maids. Low-income migrant workers should be once again entitled to proper medical care
AIMS:
- Ensure each child reaches fullest potential
- Reduce socio-economic inequality
Primary / Secondary
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Broaden the range of subjects in primary and secondary schools to include things like student collaboration projects, speech and drama, and humanities and the arts, while reducing the content of subjects like maths and science to balance workload
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Pre-school
Paid maternal leave and paternal leave will have to be adjusted upwards to allow parents to spend more time with their new-borns.
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Universities
Tertiary institutions should completely autonomous and free from state interference; academic freedom must be sacrosanct. In addition, university leadership must be democratically elected by the faculty staff and not appointed by the government.
Interest-free student loans for undergraduates; loan repayment only commences when the graduate is gainfully employed
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Madrasahs should receive state funding, consistent with the Government funding of missionary schools. In return, madrasah schools will recruit non-Muslim teachers to teach secular subjects.
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AIMS:
- Increase local TFR
- Reduce emigration from SG
- Reduce the number of foreigners coming to SG
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