My personal wish-list for Singapore

Promoting Small Businesses

- To be a free agent nation . 80% of the people works as a contractor, temporary job, or micro-businesses (with 3-4 people). The goal is to make every industries either a blend of oligopoly and monopolistic competition. In essence, there’s a long tail of small businesses serving the niches that the market giants fail to serve.

- Office buildings to be set up at residential areas to relieve traffic congestion from the city centre. More online stores to reduce the reliance on our natural constraint of lack of space. More home businesses consultancies to be set up. Startup hubs with decent facilities and contacts could be set up to encourage collaboration between different companies.

Social Welfare

- Waiver of GST on medical facilities, school fees, and costs (with the exception of cosmetic surgeries such as LASIK). These are basic welfare necessities that citizens should be entitled to.

- Families whose income per family member under S$800-$1000 to have their utilities bills waived for a certain reasonable limit, such as $50/pax.

- Increase in minimum wage of blue-collar workers. Local (Singapore citizen or PR) workers to be increased to S$9/hr and foreign workers to increase to S$12 per hour.

Transportation

- Privatizing feeder-bus services in Singapore. It is a waste to have large single-deck buses with unused capacity going around during off-peak hours. It would be more beneficial to have private mini-buses (capacity of 8-16 pax) at 2-3 minutes interval going between towns. The extra feeder buses that are freed up could be used to serve the public more extensively during peak hours.

- Carpool lanes in expressways, and heavily congested roads. ERP to be waived for carpool lanes. Implementing bus-lanes on heavy traffic roads (such as Marymount Road)

- Taxi-bus door-to-door transportation service available. Consumer can book a cab online or through phone SMS (no booking charges) and receive a fixed quote and expected time and pickup location which will be charged to his online account automatically.

- Increase in COE prices by 70%, except for vehicles registered by businesses. This will reduce the number of cars on the roads.

Technology

- S$10-$20/month for unlimited mobile data plans usage. 100MB mobile data plans included in all mobile plans. Mobile companies are hurting their profits if they fail to even encourage their customers to try out their mobile service. Think about it. Would you have such a heavy volume of SMS without the extensive number of free messages that comes embedded in your service?

- The ability for us to receive our credit card and utilities bills or statements online. (And to give us the option to stop paper-delivery of our statements). The ability to receive free itemized billing if we take up the option of online-delivery of our bills.

- The ability for us to view up to 7 years of financial transactions with our bank accounts. Not the pathetic 2 months that we currently have now.