> it's a cert that requires you to own a car. a mazda biante here cost around $150k SGD, not sure about other countries though.

The price of car ownership is no doubt extremely costly in Singapore. But that is to offset the cost of public transport, reduce traffic and of course generate revenue. I lost count of how many BMWs I have seen parked in HDB parking lots though :)

> furthermore, there's a lot of taxes we need to pay and we don't even know where these tax goes to!

However in my opinion this is something I do not agree with, taxes in Singapore are extremely low. The highest tax rate is 20% at that is on $320,000 and above, 7% GST ( which is applicable for businesses above $1m income). Then there are annual GST rebates, spouse rebates etc.