IT must be stressed time and again that the overriding issue in the May 2022 elections is the communist terrorist insurgency of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF). This is to go by the cardinal dictum of Lenin that in a chain of processes, seize the key link and firmly grasp the entire gamut of those processes. Crush that insurgency and the solutions to the many other varied economic woes of the nation follow.
For instance, why do we have such a high cost of the internet? Because the telecom industry is demanded by the NPA to pay the so-called revolutionary tax or else get its communication towers blasted. Where else do the telecoms source the payment for the NPA tax but from the consumers in terms of high internet charges. Ditto with the transmission towers for electricity to get to our homes. Electricity distributors must pay up to the NPA or have those towers bombed. In all areas of the business sector, entrepreneurs have no choice but to acquiesce to NPA extortion or receive violent reprisals.
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