Here's an old news clipping on what Senator/Mayor-elect Fred Lim says about OTJs:
Sen. Alfredo Lim made sense when he suggested that the government sell all its luxury vehicles to raise badly needed funds. The suggestion of the former top policeman, NBI chief and Manila mayor that government officials should consider going to work on owner-type jeeps should not be taken as a joke.
A reliable owner-type jeep sells for as low as P80,000 while the SUVs that our government officials and their bodyguards love to use cost upwards of P2 million apiece.
Lim also shot holes at the argument that officials on owner-type jeeps would be very vulnerable to assassination attempts when he said that it’s much easier to jump off or return fire from a jeep than from an SUV or a car.
What Lim wants to impress on government is that there is no monopoly of ideas on how the government could save money. Yes, the government needs to save and scrape the bottom of the barrel first before thinking of slapping us ordinary people and barely-struggling corporations with more taxes.
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