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Government Control, - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Controlled Drugs
        
        Consumption lead to
        
        Fine not exceeding S$20000
        
        Minimum jail term of 1 year, maximum jail term of 10 years
        
        Possession lead to
        
        Death penalty
        
        Life imprisonment
        
        Minimum of 15 strokes of cane
      - Guns lead to
        
        Minimum of 6 strokes of cane
        
        Jail term between 5 to 14 years
    - - Increased by
        
        Introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 3% in 1994, increasing until 8% in 2023 and to 9% in 2024
        
        Imposed on all items bought in Singapore
        
        Introduction of Certificate of Entitlement (COE)
        
        One is required to own a COE before purchasing a car
        
        Increasing at a ridiculous pace, for cars above 1600cc and 130bhp or 110kw, it has more than doubled from about S$50000 in January 2021 to a whopping S$118501
        
        A COE needs to be renewed every 10 years
      - Reduced by
        
        Introducing many
  - - - Government
        
        The group of people with the authority to conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of a country or state
      - Control
        
        The power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events.
      - Government Control
        
        Government control: Group of people with the authority to influence and direct the course of events taking place within a country through conducting its politics and affairs.
  - - - Elections between multiple distinct political parties, a separation of powers into different branches of government, the rule of law in everyday life as part of an open society, a market economy with private property, universal suffrage, and the equal protection of human rights, civil rights, civil liberties and political freedoms for all people
    - - The electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies.
    - - Establishing a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need
- - - - What action should a governement take?
        
        Lowering interest rates for banks to stimualte borrowing and investment, injecting liquidity into the financial system
        
        Becoming more open to cooperating with other countries in order to boost one's own economy
    - - What action should a governement take?
        
        Ensuring public safety, not utilising all the manpower on the battlefield, having enough soldiers to protect the country
        
        Being transparent about war and communicating timely updates about the war situation at hand, alleviaitng panic
        
        Ensuring that resources are arranged adequately, where food and water is supplied reasonably not only to the soldiers on the frontline, but for the citizens the soldiers are protecting as well
      - In the case of Ukraine, the war with Russia has caused unimaginable damage that as of 24 February 2023 requires US$411 billion to repair
        
        Ukraine has put into action emergency services such as places where Ukrainians can charge their phones, have a hot meal and get warm
        
        Working together with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for 4-year Country Programme
        
        To improve
        
        Quality of policy reforms in line with OECD standards
        
        enhanced access to
        
        International best practices and exchange of experiences via
        greater participation in OECD bodies
        
        enhanced
        
        Network of international experts and peers
        
        Tailored-made reviews and peer learning
- - - - For instance, the Hong Kong protests, which lasted from 12 June 2019 till mid 2020
        
        Was only stopped due to the COVID-19 outbreak as many of the protesters would have been unable to continue protesting
        
        Suggesting that the government was unable to stop the protests despite action by the police being taken
        
        Which could be a result of the government not showing their people the absolute authority they possess, allowing many of the protesters, who were of the younger generation, to be able to stand up in the presence of the government exercising their rightful authority
        
        Resulted in
        
        15 deaths
        
        Over 2600 injured
        
        10279 arrested and 2744 charged
        
        In this case, it could be seen that totalitarianism could have completely prevented this disaster,
        
        However, by stripping the citizens' rights to protest, especially since they have had the rights before, could make them protest even more
        
        The unprecedented massacre of Tiannanmen in 1989 has basically stopped the protests in China
        
        By showing their absolute military and government power, China executed several hundreds to thousands of protesters, using their tanks to roll over those who stood in the army's way and machine guns to mow down the crowd.
        
        Many have regarded this as a breach of human rights, but what can they do? China is one of the world's biggest superpowers and cannot be stopped or told what to do!