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Review: Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (PS2)
Alex Lucard | June 21, 2006 | Archive, Sony PS2, Video Game Reviews | No Comments
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
Genre: 2D Fighter
Systems Released On: Sony Playstation 2
Ah, my beloved Street Fighter Alpha After sitting through Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition, Super Street Fighter 2 and Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, I was overjoyed to see Capcom finally moving on to something new with the series I fell in love with so many Arcades ago. The Street Fighter 2 remained stagnant while SNK's King of Fighters passed it by in terms of quality and fun…although certainly not in graphics.
That's why in mid to late 1995, my friend Lynn Nokes and I were in line the day Street Fighter Alpha was released to arcades. Realize this was before the days of Gamefaqs or internet cheat sheets, so no one in line had any idea of hidden character like Dan or M. Bison. We just knew that Alpha/Zero was a prequel to the World Warrior tournament and hoped it would be the game we'd been waiting for, complete with special moves ala Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo.
Alas, I wish I could say that I was the first person to beat Street Fighter Alpha in my major metropolitan arcade of choice, but Lynn was in front of me, and he beat the game on one shiny quarter with Ken, getting a nice cheer from the fanboys when the ending started. Not to be outdone, I ended up repeating Lynn's effort, using my beloved Sagat to pummel the end boss Ryu with a Tiger Genocide level 3 super combo, which I have to admit was totally by accident on my part. Still, we would go on to be the only two people in the two-three hours we were in that arcade to beat SFA on a single quarter. Ah yes my children, when I was your age, arcades were only a quarter each and had many fun games in them equal to or greater than what you could play on a home console. And we also had this thing called "OK Soda," but that's a yarn for another time.
Eventually Street Fighter Alpha would hit home systems on both the Sony Playstation and the Sega Saturn. As long time 2D fighting zealots already know, the generation before preferred their Street Fighter 2 on the Genesis thanks to the Arcade style layout of the joysticks instead of the SNES with layout that would have been better suited to SNK fighters. As we would see with the Saturn, this would continue to hold true, with that version of the game and its controller being so much better than the PSX option, it wasn't even funny. Verily, the Saturn dominated the PSX in terms of the quality of the Capcom fighters. Where the PSX had mediocre renditions of the games, The Saturn managed ARCADE PERFECT versions of Super Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2, X-Men vs. Street Fighter and more. This same trend would continue with the Dreamcast vs the Playstation 2. If you wanted a high class quality 2D fighter, you avoided the PS2 like it had herpes, and you embraced the Naomi board loving Dreamcast. Vampire Chronicles, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK and so many other wonderful titles.
Now however, Sega is quite dead (console wise), and the PS2 has yet to receive a quality rendition of a Street Fighter game. The Street Fighter Anniversary Collection was pretty lackluster, and Capcom Classics Collection was universally reviled for the horrible crap masquerading as Street Fighter games on it (while the rest of the collection was great). So imagine my dread when SFAA was announced only for the PS2, but also in a quantity that made Panzer Dragon Saga look plentiful.
So has Capcom finally pulled its head from its own ass and given us a high quality SF game? Have they managed the impossible and given us "arcade perfect" renditions of five games? Or is it typical PS2 "Let's milk the license one mo' time" from Capcom?
Let's Review
Unlike the SF2 series, the SF Alpha games do their best to give you a little more substance storywise. Although it's not much more. SFA1 and 2 give you an exposition before the final battle in the game and then an ending, but other than that the first two Street Fighter Alpha have little more to their tale then "a bunch of freaky duded beating the crap out of each other. SFA3 ups the content a tiny bit more by giving you a fragment of story at the halfway point, but the Street Fighter Alpha games were/are still slightly below the MK and KoF series with regards to how much story you get to know while actually playing the games.
Oddly enough, of all the games on here, Gem Fighter has the most plot with an opening of why the character you chose is running around the planet cracking in skulls.
In all, there's never been a Street Fighter game with a ton of depth to its characters or story. Sure we can all go online now and learn the plot for each game and who is supposed to have won and why Alex is the main character instead of Ryu in SF3 and so on. That doesn't count though as it's outside the disc I have inserted into my PS2. The stories may be a tiny step up from what we were given in SF2, but that's like saying a paragraph is a lot more substantial than a run-on sentence.
Story Rating: 4/10
It's impressive to see the difference between each game in the series right up close like this. I remember back in 1995 that Street Fighter Alpha was beautiful in every way compared to what else was out there. I remember losing a battle or two in SFA2 way back when because I kept being drawn to the backgrounds while going, "Look! There's Haggar!" By the time SFA3 came out though, it was about par for the course with games that were out, and actually being overshadowed by other games. The SF graphics appeared to have hit their peak. Sure it was an improvement over SFA2 Gold, but it wasn't that much of an improvement. Not to mention by the time SFA3 came out, it was in competition with SFA3: Double Impact and SFA3: Third Strike, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK 2 and even the almighty SNK vs Capcom: MOTM for the Neo geo Pocket Colour, although the latter is in terms of gameplay, not graphics.
Gem Fighter is adorable and you know how easily won over I am by cute things. Ken has the best player select with his angry thumbs down and sneering face, but ah the cute lil' Chibi-Darkstalker gals. Sigh. Capcom, give me a Darkstalkers collection. Please?
Really the only game that holds up to this generation of graphics is SFA3 which is still quite pleasing to look at. Gem Fighter has some amazing visuals in the backgrounds and also with several of the special attacks in the game. it still looks like it could be a game released for this generation of gaming consoles. SFA2 and SFA2 Gold look dated, but better than games actually on the PS2 like say, Nightmare of Druaga. SFA is really the only game with graphics that might turn off the graphics first, gameplay second oriented gamer that sounds grows in their vocal minority every passing day. It's a shame because it still holds up remarkably well in gameplay, but it's showing its eleven years of age, that's for sure.
There is no slowdown which is amazing due to the fact pretty much EVERY Capcom fighter released on a Sony system has had that issue. Everything is still quite crisp and authentic to the original arcade cabinet appearances of the games (Save Gem Fighter for obvious reasons).
Even though some of the games are pushing 10+ years, the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is a product of its time period and the graphics are still able to inject long time fans with nostalgia and might even impress a more modern gamer with how good graphics could be even back in their heyday. Compared to more modern games they are dated, but just remember in 1995, Street Fighter Alpha was jaw droppingly gorgeous.
Graphics Rating: 6/10
I'll be honest here. As Darkstalkers is my favorite fighting game series of all time with Night Warriors as my reigning game of games, I loved that Gem Fighter had authentic DS music and sound effects. Talk about a happy camper. Again Capcom, I insist upon a DARKSTALKERS COLLECTION!
I've always really loved the Street Fighter collections of games for their music and sound effects. I don't think I can ever get tired of "Shoruken! Hadouken!" or "Tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger will you stop you cheesy ass pussy motherf*cker no tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger!" Maybe I'm showing my age here, but so much of the game's "voice acting" is so rooted in my skull, that it's almost iconic to me. It's hard for any other game to supplant the SF series as one of the best series across the board for FX noises. Personally, I think the series peaked aurally with SFA2 Gold (as do many people; just replace sound FX with "in every way possible), but SFA3 is still quite excellent.
Musically, the Alpha games are as universally known for their background stage music as the SF2 games, and that's a shame. Some of the music in these games are directly ripped from earlier SF games, but it's always the good stuff. Even the new music is well done and enjoyable. The tunes easily get stuck in your head and even now while writing this review I've got Charlie's background music crammed in my head and it won't leave. Arrrgh.
The graphics may not be able to go toe to toe with more modern games, but I'll be damned if the music and sound effects don't. Gaming at its finest right here. They're called "Classics" for a reason folks.
Sound Rating: 10/10
4. Control and Gameplay
Look, I'll just get it out of the way here. Control wise, NONE of these games are arcade perfect. Hell, they're not even up to the Sega Saturn versions of these games, or the Dreamcast version if we're talking Street Fighter Alpha 3. I whipped out SFA2Gold and SFA and played a game of each on both the Saturn and PS2 with the same characters, and even with my big honking 15th anniversary SF Arcade Stick that I could kill a man with, the Saturn controls, collision detection and everything is superior. There are some rough spots in the PS2 versions of these games, but unless you compare the games to the arcade perfect ports of a long dead system or go to an arcade, you might never notice.
The controls are a little sluggish to respond to commands in some areas, and in SFA and SFA2 (not gold) there's the annoying "go to jump in a direction but on screen they just jump straight up" effect, and I notice with Sagat in SFA, the Tiger Uppercut is a harder to do than it should be, which is bizarre as I was able to pull off the Dragon punch with Akuma, Ken, and Ryu without even thinking. So yes, there are issues with the controls, but only people like myself or the other frame rate memorizers or the type of people who spend days perfect Geese Howard in KoF games are really going to care of quibble. For the average gamer and even the non fanatical Street Fighter fan, you're going to enjoy this game. Otherwise, OMG! Watch the message boards for irate fanboys!
It's nigh impossible for me to go into all five games here and discuss the differences in controls. In all the games though, the controls are 85% the same. There are three different types of punches, three different types of kicks, and depending on which game you are playing, different special moves for each character. As well, the gauge systems in each game vary. With SFA and SFA2/2G You can have auto Super Combos or choose to perform them normally. Alpha 2. 2 Gold, and Street Fighter Alpha 3 let you have custom combos. SFA3 also lets you pick from different "Ism's" ala the Capcom vs. SNK series. Finally Gem Fighter is just insane. I'd need a whole other review to talk about the crazy shit in there.
The games aren't arcade perfect. It seems Capcom can't make the SF series work on the Playstation systems like they should. You want arcade perfect? Go buy a Saturn or hop on Ebay for an old arcade cabinet. If you only want to pay $30 for five excellent games that are enjoyable but not perfect, well then here you go. It's a miracle Capcom got them working this well, compared to the crappy SF ports they've released to the PS2 so far.
Control and Gameplay rating: 7/10
5. Replyability
Hello? Five games for thirty bucks. Each with unlockable characters, modes, level backgrounds and more. Not to mention a massively adjustable difficulty level on each game. There's not much I can say here without being incredibly sarcastic. You can't get much more replay out of a title than this. And we still haven't included HYPER STREET FIGHTER ALPHA which is unlockable. Hell, this game alone should keep you busy for months. Highest possible score here.
Replayability Rating: 10/10
6. Balance
Alas. Goodbye insane balance scheme of the original Street Fighter 2 game where half the fun was figuring out the crazy bugs like double redizzy combos and Guile's "Handcuffs." Street Fighter Alpha began the concept of "all fighters are equal with some a little more equal than most." Sure only a newbie or sick sadistic nutjob played as Sodom or Dan after the first fortnight SFA was in Arcades, but it was probably the most balanced fighter Capcom had ever released, and with SFA2, SFA2G, and SFA3, the playing field continued to level. With the home versions we also have a sliding difficulty scale on all five games contained in the anthology, giving you the learning curve you need.
Some characters will always be a little harder for the newer gamer than others because of how the computer plays them (Ryu will always give you more of a challenge that oh, Birdie) or your skill level, but that's to be expected. The game also gives you practice mode so you can get your "Tiger Genocide" and other super combos down pat before kicking some CPU kiester.
No matter your skill level of experience, the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is geared to give you as much (or as little) of a challenge as you need.
Balance Rating: 8/10
7. Originality
It's an anthology of ports. Every single one of these games has been released on at least two different consoles before now. Obviously it's not THAT original. Even SFA2 Gold has been released in Anthology form before by Capcom.
However, one must not just look at that aspect. We need to look at what an effect the Alpha series had on not just the Street Fighter franchise but fighting games in general. SFA gave us the autoguard, and easy commands. It gave us alpha counters and Super Combos. SFA2 gave us Custom Combos. SFA3 gave us damage reduction, guard crush, Ism's (although Capcom vs SNK came first) and Shadooloo mode. All of these were considered big changes when each respective game came out. they may not seem like much now, but my god in 1995 was SFA a big deal that everyone seemed to think was superior to the SF2 series.
So we have a balance year. Decade old games vs. the legacy of greatness and improvements they made over each previous game. Let's call it a push, shall we?
Originality Rating: 5/10
8.Addictiveness
Oh god, how can someone NOT get addicted to these games. The SF and KoF series are the only games I get so into the game I swear and smack my controller if something doesn't go off perfectly. These games bring out the anal perfectionist in me and I will not stop until I have say, gotten Akuma as my alternate boss fight in SFA, even with Sodom. Man, have I picked on him a lot in this review or what? I am not a person that gets easily
into video games. I freely admit to being jaded and pessimistic and find most games to be mediocre nowadays. But holy hell, can I lose myself in SFAA. One game becomes 5-6 and two hours are shot to hell as I try to outdo my high score.
I realize that 2D fighters and shooters are my crack. They may not be everyone's, but Street Fighter Alpha alone was considered one of the most addicting games ever when it was first released, and SFA2 Gold is its superior in almost every way. The only reason this isn't getting a ten in this category is because I realize I'm easily addicted to the series and my feelings and passion for the Street Fighter Alpha games is not indictative of most peoples.
Addictiveness Rating: 8/10
9. Appeal Factor
There's only two types of people who don't love 2d fighters.
Serial killers and furries. And furries can enjoy Gem Fighter on this Anthology because it has Felicia.
Seriously though. SFA was not quite on par with the level of insanity that Street Fighter 2's many incarnations had, but it was pretty close. It was a big deal and a giant leap for the series in 1995. Everyone who was into gaming in those days tried it at least once. Even the SNK zealots. Hell, I *AM* an SNK Zealot and I love the Alpha games. Unless you are so utterly into graphics you will enjoy these games. You will love these games. You will probably get frustrated and swear at these games, but you will still adore them for their quality, challenge, and sheer greatness. There are games in this world that the vast majority of mankind seem to love. Pac-Man. Super Mario Bros. 3. Pokemon. Street Fighter. The SFA games are superior to both the SF2 and SF3 games in my opinion, so you're getting the best Capcom has to offer here that doesn't involve werewolves and british rocking out zombies.
Appeal Factor: 8/10
I really wanted to give this game a perfect score here. After all it's five games for thirty bucks. I basically paid six dollars for Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. Even now I can't get my head around that. But there's two quibbles for me.
A) Where's my World Tour Mode on Street Fighter Alpha 3. To be honest, it's the only reason I had for buying it on the DC and PSX. Without it, I find SFA3 to be superior to the first two Alpha games in graphics only.
B) It's not arcade perfect. It's good, but it's not great. Sorry, but I'm spoiled by the fact I KNOW Capcom can do it if they're not be lazy. I have Night Warriors, Street Fighter vs X-Men and Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold on my Saturn. I know it's possible. But it simply didn't happen here.
But other than that, this is as close to perfection with a collection as Capcom has ever come. It's better than the Mega Man collection, better than Capcom Classics Collection, better than the SF Anniversary crap fest, and I can keep going.
Simply put, I think this is the best thing Capcom has released this generation of gaming. Yes, that includes RE4.
It's not perfect, but I am extremely thankful to have this available to me, especially as the print run is staggeringly low. This is a great set of games that every gamers needs to grab the second they see a copy still available on the shelves.
Miscellaneous Rating: 8/10
The Scores
Graphics: 6/10
Sound: 10/10
Control & Gameplay: 7/10
Replayability: 10/10
Balance: 8/10
Originality: 5/10
Addictiveness: 8/10
Miscellaneous: 8/10
Total Score 74/10
Final Score: 7.5 (Really really good!)
Short Attention Span Summary
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology has the highest score I've given a game this year. That's kind of good and bad at the same time depending on how you look at it. If this was the mid 90's, you'd see Appeal, Miscellaneous, and Graphics maxed out though, giving the games a collective 8.5. I actually agonized over the game getting "only" a 7.5 from me, but there are no places I could justify to myself a higher score anywhere on the listing. Regardless, this is my game of the year so far, and after 111 reviews and an average score of 6.17 per game, a 7.5 is pretty good after all. It's been a good run and I can't think of a better game to go out reviewing on than one of my favorite series of all time. TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER KNEE TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER TIGER GENOCIDE!
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19 - Jack Move
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20 - Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath
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21 - Stardew Valley: Collector's Edition
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Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
22 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine
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23 - Persona 4 Golden
Genres: Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Visual Novel
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation Vita
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24 - Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition
Genres: Adventure, Platform, Indie
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25 - The Witch's House MV
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Genres: Adventure, Point-and-click
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Android, iOS, Xbox 360
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Genres: Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Platform
Released on Sep 23rd 2021
28 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
29 - Red Dead Redemption 2
Genres: Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Shooter
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30 - Hades
Genres: Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Indie, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
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Released on Dec 12th 2017
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Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
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61 - Corpse Party
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Genres: Strategy, Simulator, Indie
63 - Life is Strange: Before the Storm - Limited Edition
64 - The Walking Dead: Episode 5 - No Time Left
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Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, iOS, Xbox 360, Windows Phone
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Genres: Strategy, Fighting, Platform, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
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Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Mac
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Genres: Arcade, Racing
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
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77 - Destiny: The Taken King: Legendary Edition
78 - Forza Horizon 3: Ultimate Edition
79 - Streets of Rage 4: Mr X. Nightmare
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83 - Rock Band 4: Rivals Bundle
84 - Beholder: Complete Edition
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86 - Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Deluxe Edition
87 - Tropico 5: Penultimate Edition
88 - What Lies in the Multiverse
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Genres: Strategy, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator
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Gary McDonald has fond memories of Lunch With Casey. He was one of many kids that visited the show over the years. Fortunately, Gary had the foresight to take his camera with him and take these photos!
These are pictures of me in the ENGINE NO. 11.
These photos were taken in Roger and Lynns' office at WTCN-TV. The dates on these pictures of mine would have been 1971-1972. Not exactly sure when. Roundhouse took that picture of me and his puppet, again sitting on the couch in their office at WTCN-TV. Casey also had a puppet that someone made for him of his likeness I do believe..
WTCN was the first TV station I was ever in. I was about 11 years old. Casey & Roundhouse were so kind to me. They sparked an interest in television in me that never left. I have made a living in TV now for 20 years.
apparently I was on Lunch With Casey when I was about 4 (?) years old….according to my mother and aunt, who have both passed away, I was the oly one on the show and Casey sat me on his desk for the show. What I was told, is that it was a horrible day (Sept 18, 1954 is my birthday) and no one else showed up because of the weather(?), but my father (who passed away April 28, 1961) made sure I got to the station. I was wondering even with the poor technology at the time if there are movies from back in the late 50's/early 60's of the shows and how I could go about viewing them if there are?? I had a whie dress with red polka dots on and probably had ringlets in light brown hair. I wasn't sure where to look but viewed a news clip from after Casey's heart attack which said there were links??
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It's The Pits
Doing away with Income Tax can actually add to the government's coffers, say experts. We have no complaints. So, will the FM oblige?
Paromita Shastri	29 September 2003
Paromita Shastri	September 29, 2003 00:00 IST It's The Pits
Last night, I had a dream. Like John Lennon, I dreamt that the world had become a happier place. People were going about their work smiling, they had a light spring to their steps and looked like they had not a care in the world. As if a great burden had been lifted from their shoulders. As if they didn't have anything to hide from anybody. As if they had won a siege and attained freedom. As if...well, as if they didn't have to pay income tax anymore!
Surely I am not the only one? Don't all of you, dear reader, hate paying income tax, especially when it is cut right from your salary? Haven't all of you had the same dream sometime, of not having to look at another income tax form ever again in your life?
People, you are in august company. Former US president Jimmy Carter called income tax "a disgrace to the human race". In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice, said Voltaire. But, naturally. Income tax started off everywhere as an emergency measure during war, with the citizens told to make a special contribution. It was introduced to the world by England fighting Napoleon (see box) and then increased at will, often unconstitutionally, to fight more wars and/or to replenish a treasury depleted by it. American politician Bill Archer said: "I am convinced that if most members of Congress did their own taxes, we would've had tax reform long ago." In India, we can go a step ahead and declare that income tax would have been abolished long ago if even a fourth of our rhino-skinned politicians paid any. Since they, and countless other privileged members of society, declare subsistence-level incomes, the remaining 28 million of us cannot shake off our great obligation, our raison du travailler. We work because we have a government to support!
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax."— Albert Einstein
Income tax is just a bad idea that got progressively worse. It gives government a claim to your labour, just as a slave owner had a claim to the slave's labour. Yet, the maximum that could be extracted from a medieval serf was one-third. But during world war times, tax rates in most countries varied from 77 per cent to 90 per cent. In India, Indira Gandhi raised the top rate to 97.5 per cent (which only a handful paid), yet collections barely exceeded one per cent of gdp. Even two years ago, the highest tax rate was 33.5 per cent including surcharge. No wonder that despite desperate efforts by the government to raise direct tax revenues, they are stagnant at 3 per cent of gdp, with the share of personal income tax (PIT) stuck around 1.4 per cent and corporate tax contributing 1.6 per cent.
Notice that only a fraction of India's population contributes almost the same amount paid by its entire corporate world! Notice also that the recently added tax base of paanwallahs, doctors, architects, lawyers and other small businesses, claimed to be around 20 million, under the one-by-six criterion (anyone who owns a house, car, telephone, credit card, or has a club membership or travelled abroad, has to pay income tax mandatorily) has contributed a pathetic Rs 1,000 crore to the tax revenue (or 0.26 per cent of last fiscal's income tax collections of Rs 37,300 crore)! Sixty per cent of India's PIT revenue comes from TDS (Tax Deducted at Source)—the inescapable axe on salary income.
By contrast, America has 127 million taxpayers, paying in $1 trillion to the federal government. And perhaps an even more regressive system. The US 'tax army' is bigger than the US army that went to Iraq. Income taxes there are so complex that there are up to 1.2 million paid 'tax preparers' in the country—six times more than the number of troops in Iraq—with a total compliance cost of $192 billion. As the number of tax shelters grew, the number of IRS (Internal Revenue Service) tax forms went up to 526 in 2002 (402 in 1990) and the number of pages in the tax code and regulations doubled from 26,300 in 1984 to 54,846 by 2003. In India, in 1939, we had a 67-section tax code, same as in small low-tax, high-compliance countries like Hong Kong and Singapore. We now have a long convoluted code that allows many companies to get by without paying any tax.
These papyrus administrators don't understand a simple fact: income tax goes against the grain of human nature. It violates the inalienable right of an individual to her own property/income and interferes with her right to dispose of that property/income in the manner she chooses. In concept, income tax smacks of socialism—"from each according to his ability"—and thus triggers human beings to become poor producers. Why expand my business, why work overtime when my increased income will leave little for myself? Secondly, it violates the principle of equality—that all men are equal in the eyes of law or government—though in terms of extraction, its administrators are as impartial as the highway robber! Third, income tax doesn't distinguish between wealth obtained by privilege and wealth obtained by production.
The government is as strong as its income, right? But surely this ought to be true of its people too? Why do all developing countries tax heavily? Because they have the largest government debts and the largest expenditures. Governments borrow on the security of their power to tax; the more its borrowing, the greater is its compulsion to tax the income and savings of its people. In a way, that's getting back a part of the public debt. The Indian government is richly convicted of this crime; its entire borrowing goes to meet half of its spending on itself.
Again, income tax is not only a tax on income but on capital too (as savings are also taxed). By taking away a part of capital or by allowing that part of income not to be spent, the government reduces capital investment or hits demand-driven spending, either way impacting growth. Stanford economists Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, the pioneers of the flat tax, estimate that this barrier to productive economic activity reduces annual economic output by $750 per person in the US. As government spending grows, it expands, becoming the largest political force, employer, financier, buyer of goods and services, you name it. And as government grows, people's power diminishes. They tend to form lobbies for tax shelters or become corrupt. Research shows that businessmen view direct taxes as a business cost, and seek to pass these on to consumers or take their money abroad, legally or illegally. Lastly, income tax is undemocratic because popular will doesn't support it. Left to themselves, humans will always work to satisfy themselves, not to help redistribute wealth.
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward." —John Maynard Keynes
In most countries, to a greater or smaller extent, the income tax system suffers from huge litigation, arrears, corruption, evasion and punitive action. In India, computes tax expert S.S. Bagai, it's possible to earn 10 times current revenues on prevailing rates of tax. But that's possible only when people pay up voluntarily, a contradiction in terms and therefore impossible.
Let's take the top rate of 30 per cent to show how the Indian tax system has become regressive, extortionary and evasion-encouraging over time. This rate is applicable to income above Rs 1.5 lakh now, but the ceiling used to be Rs 6 lakh in 1959 (at the current value of the rupee) and Rs 60 lakh in 1939! During Indira Gandhi's time, as mentioned above, rates had become well-nigh intolerable for higher income groups, but two-third of the individual taxpayers were still paying tax at 3 per cent and 6 per cent only, compared to 20 per cent now. By encouraging avoidance and evasion, income tax thus also distorts financial planning and business investment and encourages unreported income, or the shadow economy. A recent study by economist Friedrich Schneider finds India's shadow economy at 23 per cent of the official one.
Says Rajiv Gandhi Foundation director Bibek Debroy: "There are probably 200 million households in India. Today agricultural income, including non-agricultural income of farmers, is outside the tax net. That probably leaves around 65 million urban households. Almost 28 million already submit returns. Given the exemptions, this number won't rise in a hurry. The problem thus is with under-declaration, rather than with non-submission of returns. How do we fight under-declaration?"
We don't. We simply get rid of income tax. Dramatic as it may sound, economically, it's perfectly possible to abolish income tax. Maverick economist-politician Subramanian Swamy has argued for long for abolition of income tax. He says in his book India's Economic Performance and Reforms: "After abolition (of income tax), the rate of savings will shoot up, the stockmarket will boom and the growth rate will increase. And indirect tax revenues will be double the loss of direct tax revenue. We must know how to take actions which look risky but have high rewards." He's right; indirect tax (like customs and excise) revenues are already almost double direct tax (like income tax and property tax) revenues.
Even industry supports it. Says cii's T.K. Bhaumik: "We can have an expenditure tax or a consumption tax with a more stringent administration. For example, a higher tax on sales of luxury items like cars, ACs or air travel. There are many benefits of abolishing PIT. One, it will legalise all the black money floating around. There will be a surge in savings and expenditure because disposable income will increase. If one saves, it will go indirectly or directly to the exchequer. If one spends, the expenditure tax can bring in revenues."
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." —Sir Winston Churchill
In fact, the world is already moving towards less or no income tax. There are two options: an expanding value-added tax (VAT) regime or a flat income tax. Even in the US, along with tax cut proposals, the flat tax is gaining popularity. Harvard economist Dale Jorgenson has also suggested distinguishing between income or property that is accumulated, and earned. Some countries like Russia, Croatia, Estonia and Latvia have successfully adopted flat tax—Russia reported 50 per cent rise in collections in two years with a 13 per cent tax.Even China, faced with 40 per cent evasion and more among the wealthy, despite a peak rate of 20 per cent, has published the flat tax book to popularise the concept.
A better alternative is a well-orchestrated value-added tax. Explains economist Ashok V. Desai: "A VAT is a proportional income tax. If it can cover everyone selling anything in the market including one-woman businesses, then it would be possible to abolish the lowest bracket of income tax and raise the threshold considerably, say, to Rs 5,00,000 or so." Adds editor-economist Swaminathan A. Aiyar: "The distinction between direct and indirect taxes is a blurred one. We will do well to get the vast bulk of our tax revenue from a comprehensive VAT, and relatively little from income tax." Oxus Research president Surjit S. Bhalla goes a step ahead: "Team the VAT with a consumption tax and you have enough arsenal to replace the regressive income tax system." (see interview)
VAT works on a simple principle. The value of a product is the share of incomes of participants in its production. These are wages, rents, interest and profits. A complete VAT will therefore tax all forms of income. Why then have a separate income tax or corporate tax? VAT also has several advantages over income tax. One, it's easily collectible and minimises evasion since every stage of production is accounted for. Says Parth J. Shah, president, Centre for Civil Society: "In income tax, the more a person earns, the more she or he hides. In VAT, the more the manufacturer or the retailer earn, the more they declare, because they want refund. If they hide, they don't get refund, so they pay a sort of tax anyway." Two, VAT's easily payable. You pay the tax at the cash register. No forms, no fuss and no intrusion into your personal finances by the ITO. Three, VAT is levied on consumption, not savings, and therefore encourages savings and investment—the less you buy, the less tax you pay. Four, even farmers pay VAT!
Some may worry that a national VAT would make shopping trips more expensive, but most economists note that the income tax, corporate income tax and excise already make goods more expensive. Since these taxes will go, the price of consumer goods could actually fall as a result. Also, getting rid of the taxes that penalise investing and saving will fuel an increase in economic growth, which means increased business competition and lower prices.
The second worry is that the poor will have to pay a larger share of their income for essentials like food and clothing, so indirect taxes hit them more. This is the redistribution or equity principle that favours income tax. There is merit in this argument. So, most countries have kept items like uncooked foods out of the net—even in India, under the proposed VAT, essentials like salt, life-saving drugs, fruits and vegetables etc are exempt.
The most clinching argument is trade policy. Under wto rules, a country can refund exporters' indirect taxes, like VAT, they have paid on goods, but not income or corporate tax on export profits. These rules have opened a window of opportunity for India. Says Aiyar: "India needs to aim for a flat income and corporate tax rate of say 15 per cent, with a high exemption limit of Rs 5 lakh. This will exempt the middle class from income tax, and the rich will happily pay 15 per cent with no hassles or litigation. Best of all, no IT companies (or other exporters) will migrate. " From this to no income tax is but a story of a few years!
It won't even affect the budget! Personal income tax collection is only 9 paise out a rupee earned by the government, while subsidies take 10 paise out of a rupee spent. The one paise saved can go to politicians to subsidise their people-friendly programmes. On the other hand, savings would be enormous. There will be an immediate direct rise in disposable incomes by 10, 20 and 30 per cent as per the current PIT rates. Second, it is estimated that there will be an immediate rise in household savings from 23 per cent now to at least 26 per cent. That is because some of the income freed from tax will go to savings, while a significant part of the hidden wealth can now be saved and money earned on it. While most of the black economy is notional and partly accounted for in the gdp, Bhalla estimates at least 10 per cent increase in the value of the gdp with the end of the black economy.
So why don't politicians prefer VAT over IT? Simply because the former is a more transparent system. The tax would be clearly stated on the purchase receipt and it would be hard to raise it without people noticing. That scares most politicians. The government governs best when it governs least. But income tax makes this country an oligarchy of bureaucrats who live by extortion. Let's have freedom from their power. Let's reverse Benjamin Franklin's words. Let only death be certain in this world, not income tax.
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Former Anderson resident John Simpson stole from Marines through charity, US attorney says
A federal prosecutor says Marines and Mickey charity founder John Shannon Simpson stole more than $5,000 from seven active-duty Marines.
Former Anderson resident John Simpson stole from Marines through charity, US attorney says A federal prosecutor says Marines and Mickey charity founder John Shannon Simpson stole more than $5,000 from seven active-duty Marines. Check out this story on independentmail.com: https://www.independentmail.com/story/news/2019/01/15/former-anderson-resident-bilked-active-duty-marines-marines-and-mickey-john-shannon-simpson/2574549002/
Kirk Brown, Anderson Independent Mail Published 6:00 a.m. ET Jan. 15, 2019 | Updated 2:42 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019
Former Anderson resident John Shannon Simpson stole more than $5,000 from seven active-duty Marines after forming a charity called Marines and Mickey, according to a newly filed court document.
The nine-page document filed last week by U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon states that Simpson made unauthorized withdrawals in 2015 and 2016 from the bank accounts of Marines who had recently graduated from boot camp. Her filing comes three months after Simpson's initial appearance on a federal wire-fraud charge.
According to Lydon, Simpson's charity solicited contact information for the seven Marines during Family Day activities at the Marine Corps Recruit Corps Depot on Parris Island, South Carolina.
In subsequent phone calls to the Marines, Simpson falsely claimed that he was a retired Marine master sergeant, former drill instructor or former reconnaissance Marine, according to Lydon. He actually was a former Marine clerk who received a bad-conduct discharge in May 1998 after going absent without leave.
"Simpson asked they donate to the charity on a recurring monthly basis in nominal amounts of approximately $25," Lydon stated. "They gave Simpson their debit card numbers. Instead of making the agreed upon withdrawals, Simpson made unauthorized withdrawals from their accounts in a combined total amount of more than $5,000."
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A defense attorney for Simpson, 43, could not be reached for comment.
Simpson, who grew up in Belton, formed Marines and Mickey in 2014, about a year after he moved from Anderson to Estero, a village on Florida's Gulf Coast. The purpose of the charity was purportedly to pay for Marines and their families to visit Walt Disney resorts and also to pay for families to attend Marine boot-camp graduations.
According to Lydon, in addition to lying about his military career, Simpson told donors that 100 percent of their donations would go to Marines and their families.
"In fact, the charity received received approximately $481,000 of donations from May 2014 through June 2016. Only about $90,000 of the donations, or about 19 percent, were used for charitable purposes during the same time-period," Lydon stated. "Simpson diverted the remainder of the monies in the charitable accounts, approximately $391,000, for his personal use and enrichment."
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About $8,200 siphoned from the charity was spent on Simpson's now-defunct business, Semper Fi Security, and for rent at a home in Florida where he lived with his ex-wife and their three children, according to a 10-page affidavit from FBI Special Agent Tiffany Baker that was unsealed in October.
Money from the charity also paid for a car, dental work, bikini wear, $400 worth of meals at restaurants in Anderson and New York City, a $40.29 charge at the Museum of Sex in New York City and a $873.53 tax payment related to an adult novelty business, Red Room Toys, operated by Simpson's ex-wife, according to Baker's affidavit.
Besides the seven Marines, court records have listed three other victims who were allegedly bilked by Simpson.
Baker's affidavit indicates that Simpson's primary victim was Cathy Wells. Her 21-year-old son, Marine Lance Cpl. Skip Wells, was one of five servicemen who died when Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 16, 2015.
Cathy Wells was responsible for $135,000 in donations to Marines and Mickey, including a $75,000 loan made in December 2015 for the sole purpose of opening a barbershop in her son's name, according to court records. The barbershop never opened.
Lydon stated that Simpson misused most of a $25,000 donation that his charity received in 2016 from the Community Foundation of Chattanooga. The foundation raised money for the families of the victims who died in the Chattanooga shootings.
Lydon also states that a Marine family from New York whose young daughter died of a terminal illness never received money raised for them by Marines and Mickey. Lydon said that Simpson altered a $1,000 check from one donor to the family.
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While his charity was under investigation, Simpson was arrested in Florida at the home of his former girlfriend in January 2017. He received a nine-year prison sentence last year for burglary with assault or battery, obstructing justice, sexual assault, stalking and contempt of court for violating a domestic violence injunction, court records show.
Simpson was extradited from Florida to South Carolina in October for his initial appearance before a judge Charleston on the wire-fraud charge. He is facing a maximum federal sentence of 20 years in prison.
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San Francisco, Nov 9 : Facebook has removed more than 14 million "pieces of terrorist content" on its platform till September this year that was related to the Islamic State (IS), Al Qaeda and their affiliates.
"In both Q2 and Q3, we found more than 99 per cent of the IS and Al Qaeda content ultimately removed ourselves, before it was reported by anyone in our community," Monika Bickert, Global Head of Policy Management, said in a blog post on Thursday.
"These figures represent significant increases from Q1 2018, when we took action on 1.9 million pieces of content, 640,000 of which was identified using specialized tools to find older content," she added.
The US Department of Justice recently discovered an alleged IS supporter warning others to be careful when posting propaganda on Facebook, pointing to the network's Q1 2018 terrorism removal metrics as evidence that pushing propaganda on the social media giant was getting more difficult.
"We now use machine learning to assess Facebook posts that may signal support for IS or Al Qaeda," said Brian Fishman, Head of Counterterrorism Policy at Facebook.
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According to Facebook, the new machine learning tools have reduced the amount of time terrorist content -- reported by its users stays on the platform -- from 43 hours in Q1 2018 to 18 hours in Q3 2018.
"Our experiments to algorithmically identify violating text posts (what we refer to as language understanding) now work across 19 languages. We now also use audio- and text-hashing techniques for detecting terrorist content," Bickert informed.
In Q2 2018, the median time on Facebook for newly uploaded content surfaced with its standard tools was about 14 hours -- a significant increase from Q1 2018 -- when the median time was less than 1 minute.
By Q3 2018, the median time on platform decreased to less than two minutes, "illustrating that the new detection systems had matured".
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