<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Schemes on Ram’s blog</title><link>https://blog.ramiyer.me/tags/schemes/</link><description>Recent content in Schemes on Ram’s blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-IN</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:13:05 +0530</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.ramiyer.me/tags/schemes/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Are Government Freebies Bad</title><link>https://blog.ramiyer.me/are-government-freebies-bad/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.ramiyer.me/are-government-freebies-bad/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ever since the word, &amp;ldquo;Socialist&amp;rdquo;, got added to the Preamble of our constitution&amp;mdash;or perhaps much before that&amp;mdash;political parties, in their manifestos, have continued to promise freebies to us citizens. This is so common, that we now take the freebies and subsidies for granted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Understand that I am not talking from a political standpoint; I am talking of politics, but not from a political standpoint. Take this post in the sense of an economy and its members, which is us; everyone of us. And I will keep this short.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>