Remove taxes from essential items 

Inflation is now too high a rate! The worst sufferers of high inflation rate are senior citizens as they have limited earnings like pension or returns from their past savings. Unlike the present young generation they have not earned in crores or even in lakhs per month. It is another question that nowadays middle class is earning too much money and have hardly time to spend and enjoy. But the poor suffer the most.

One reason for high inflation is too much money with too many a number of persons (again middle class yuppies) and high margins by all connected people in the chain of selling a production from factory owner to retailer! And the main culprit is government which levies multiple taxes on a single commodity. A good portion of selling price consists of taxes only! In order to reduce prices remove all taxes from all essential commodities and help the poor persons to pay less for necessaries of life.

Mahesh Kumar, Via e-mail