This addresses not just the military threat, but also the economics of the Communist insurgency. Revolutionary taxation is plainly a CPP-NPA method of extorting money and resources from corporations and commercial farms, particularly in the countryside. Despite previous denunciations of revolutionary taxation by business leaders and government officials, no previous administration has succeeded in stopping or eradicating the communist practice. Tatapusin ko (This NPA, I’ll crush them, I’ll annihilate them). By highlighting the role of evolutionary taxation in funding the insurgency, the administration could truly break the back of the insurgency during its watch.

Source: Manila Times January 28, 2018 16:30 UTC