One of the most corrupt countries in the world. Disgusting how they oppress the people there.
It's called a Democracy but it's a facist state for all intended purposes.
The cost of my Mercedes SL500 was around $500K (price if I bought it in the US? around $150K).
My road tax was like $5000/year.
(not insurance, thats just to have the privilege to drive my car there).
The fuckers have another tax called the Carbon Emission-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEVS) which was another $5000
Then they tack on another 14% Premium tax because it's considered a "Premium" vehicle.
And after 10 years, this ass clown Lee Kuan Yew and his facist gov't DE Registers your car. Yes you heard right, after 10 years, your $500K car is more or less useless. You either pay additional exorbitant taxes to RE Register it (100K or more) or you have to give it up and get ass raped by these fuckers all over again
So a car that costs $175K here in the North America
These fuckers screws people into paying almost $700K for the same car there.
Here's the kicker,
Obama as President of the US makes $400K a year.
This ass clown corrupt Lee Kuan Yew's son as Prime Minister makes........$2,183,516
Put this in perspective, It's an island the size of NYC ok?
Top 10 Highest Paid Government Leaders
The average ministers in parliment makes approx 1.1 million each.
Guess screwing people with car prices being triple or quad the value plus helps pays for these corrupt assholes
As you can imagine, I sold my house and car and GotTFO while I still could.
Don't let the bright lights, and pretty things fool you. The gov't there is no different than Libya's late dictator.
They only get away with it through fear, coercion by scaring the people, calling themselves a "guided democracy" lol and being buddies with the US.
Ask yourself this, how does 1 party stay in power for 60 years unopposed in every "democratic election"