Leo Mirani
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Kicking and screaming: protests at World Cup · 11 Jun 2026
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But the fact is, in this country of one point four five billion people, only twenty eight million of those actually pay any tax.
That is two percent of the population, five percent of the labor force, or if you want to be really generous and assume there's only one taxpayer in every household, it's ten percent of households.
Whichever way you look at it, it's a very, very thin slice.
And therefore I think that is what counts as the elite.
Well, it's certainly not because they're getting value for money from their taxes.
The state of public health care and public education in India is pretty abysmal and a far greater section of society sends their kids to private school or would prefer private healthcare if they can afford it.
It's not because they get decent public transport, which they're being advised to use.
It's not even like they get clean air to breathe.
The reason they support the Prime Minister is because he promised better days, that the government will provide economic growth, national pride and international respect.
Well, that's exactly it.
So what the elites are seeing now is
They're watching their tax payments being handed out as free money before every election cycle.
They've put up with all of this, right?
But the whole promise of this government was that they get to enjoy some stuff.
They get to have a consumer lifestyle.
They get to go on foreign holidays, which until 20 years ago nobody did.
It was unaffordable.
And now to be told you can't drive around in your SUV, you probably should feel guilty about.
about going abroad.
That's really enraging for this small number of people.
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