Budget V\s Da Vinci Code


Budget V\s Da Vinci Code

 

Funny and Punny were deep in discussion, trying to decipher, decode and digest the annual ritual called budget.

Funny: It will ‘kick-start’ the economy

Punny: Of-course, you need a ‘kick’ to start

F: Which the middle income group got – no change in personal tax slab

P: Don’t get ‘personal’, it’s just a ‘slap’...errr...’slab’

F: Our rural folks got a windfall in ‘minimum support price’

P: But they need ‘maximum support’

F: It is all about revival of rural economy

P: It is all about our survival, stupid!

F: Market is down

P: Disagree. Go to any vegetable or fish market – they are all up! You don’t make sense(x)!

F: Huge funds allocated for ‘healthcare’

P: Still trying to ‘locate’ these ‘allocations’

F: Fiscal deficit pegged at 3.3% of GDP

P: What? Don’t try to get ‘physical’ with me

F: Long term capital gains tax makes a re-entry, a worry

P: Well, for someone with no capital, much less gain, why worry

F: Customs and excise duties up

P: It is after all a ‘custom’ary ‘ex(er)cise’

Jarred by these ‘jarGUNS’, even after an hour and half of deep discussion on budget which any way is a ‘modi’fied version of bygone ‘con’gress era, F&P found out they were where they were, confused as ever, yet to figure out which was more ‘taxing’ and ‘complicated’ – budget or the Da Vinci Code?

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