QUESTIONS FOR FILIPINO VOTERS IN 2010

Questions for Filipino voters from Mercado-Alonto team
BY ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO

A self-declared 2010 presidential candidate and his probable running mate have fired the first salvo in turning the forthcoming presidential election an “issue-oriented” political exercise, with their “give-me-five questions” for voters.

Born Again Bishop Norberto Lacierna Mercado and Dr. Zaf Alonto, who announced they will run as president and vice-president respectively in 2010, said the “give-me-five questions” were promulgated by them so that Filipino voters could assess the presidential and vice-presidential candidates on the basis of their answers to the questions.

These are the five questions: One, do you want to abolish the income tax as well as the estate and real estate taxes? Two, do you want a free college education with student allowance for everybody? Three, do you want to remove the expanded value tax on gasoline, electric power, water, food and medicine?

Four, do you want to end our national debt where half of our annual budget is “wasted” to pay it? And, five, do you want more jobs for the Filipino people?

Come to think of it, all of these questions could be traced back to what our Lord Jesus Christ said was the second most important commandment of all: love your neighbor as you love yourself (Leviticus 19: 18; Matthew 19:19; Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Mark 12:33; Luke 10:27; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14 and James 2:8 of the Bible).

When you abolish income and other taxes and give our people more money to spend, when you give more jobs to them and enable our students to study for free, that is loving our neighbor, for all intents and purposes.

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