After Monday night’s MPS at the Hong Kah North branch, I found myself interacting as usual with branch comrades, and not surprisingly the main topic of conversation was the 2010 Budget, which had just been unveiled that afternoon by Finance Minister Tharman. Not having had a chance to watch the afternoon’s proceedings or catch the news, my first question was, ‘Are we getting another income tax rebate this year?’, thinking, of course, of last year’s generous tax relief measure adopted as an antidote to the woes of the then raging economic crisis.