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FOR THE PAST few days, we have seen once again the spectacle of candidates filing their candidacy for elective posts in the 2019 mid-term elections.

(Second of two parts) Under federalism, taxes imposed on production or sale of goods and provision of services (VAT, excise taxes, percentage taxes) are much more difficult to deal with.

(First of two parts) MY OWN understanding of the basic financial underpinning of Philippine federalism as I hear it from the proponents is quite simple: under the proposed federalism, each state will raise and spend its own money, except for a portion to be allocated by the states for the use of the central (federal) government to perform its assigned functions.

FEDERALISM is now getting wider attention. This is good. It is clear that this structure of government, which is totally alien to us, is being pushed down our throats with the convening of the Consultative Committee on Constitutional Reform.

THE advantages of federalism that accrue to federal countries around the world today cannot be denied. To convert unitary Philippines into several states and then federate them, however, will not bring the same results.

A SIGNIFICANT obstacle to political development and economic growth is the lack of a common language for all sectors of Philippine society.

WASH SYCIP was a very well known person, not only in the Philippines, but also in the whole world.

Commencement speeches are usually clarion calls to action. As the new graduates commence a new phase in their lives, they are advised by the commencement speakers, invariably, to conquer one’s field of expertise, to better one’s self or to go beyond and change the world.