A continuing quest for freedom

Hunyo 12, 2023

Our foreign policy is for the security and development of the people, most of all. It should uphold peace over militarism, sovereignty over aggression, and development over empire.

Suspending TRAIN oil taxes will lower oil prices and ease inflation—IBON

Oktubre 23, 2021

Suspending oil excise taxes, can ease the burden of rising prices on ordinary Filipinos, and revenue losses can be compensated by suspending corporate tax cuts. These can be the start of a more progressive tax system and a prelude to better regulation and control over the country’s oil industry.

IBON Executive Director on TRAIN and CREATE

Hulyo 26, 2021

The Few Favored Over The Many

Marso 27, 2021

2021 Yearstarter: Solving the pandemic crisis

Pebrero 21, 2021

The Philippines has the worst performing economy in ASEAN and is set to have the worst performing to as far away as South Asia and the rest of East Asia

CREATE’s three mistakes

Pebrero 7, 2021

From a development perspective, the fundamental problem is that CREATE asks the wrong question: what CIT will attract foreign investment? This puts us in a mindless race-to-the-bottom where our fiscal policy is defined by what corporations want rather than what national development and upholding social and economic rights demands.

On economic decline and passage of CREATE bill

Pebrero 1, 2021

Amid soaring public debt, congressional bicameral conference committee passes revenue-losing Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) bill.

IBON Executive Director on Bayanihan 2 and CREATE

Nobyembre 27, 2020

#MalalangEkonomiya #MayMagagawa #PeopleEconomics

CREATE is for big business more than MSME’s

Nobyembre 26, 2020

The Duterte administration doesn’t really care to stimulate the economy and is still taking care of big business instead of the economy or the people.