This is where your taxes go Part 2

From Ernesto Maceda:

Who said we are in a crisis and immediate action is needed? Ask the honorable members of Congress.

After convening for only eight weeks spent mostly in fighting over committee assignments, they have gone on a 32-day recess. They will resume on Oct. 25 to work for one week then go on a six-week Christmas and New Year break.

So far only one bill has been passed into law — the postponement of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao elections. Only one tax bill has been reported out by the committee on ways and means in the House, none in the Senate. Now Senate President Frank Drilon has gone off to Switzerland with Dick Gordon and Nene Pimentel. Sen. Manny Villar and an NP congressman are on a Malaysian cruise.

You can't blame Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago for calling her colleagues “idiots.” And they still get P1.75 million a month to go on vacation too. As for the Senate president and Speaker and their Pro Tempore, they receive much more.

Senators have roasted government-owned-and-controlled-corporation (GOCC) executives for receiving P4-P4.8 million a year in salaries and allowances. Some GOCC executives have offered to reduce their pay. Senators receive over P20 million a year. Will senators Johnny Flavier and wealthy Jamby Madrigal now lead the way and cut their budgets by 40 percent also?

And GMA expects us to just accept the new taxes while Congress and GMA refuse to cut spending and abolish their "pork barrel"?