budget - narrowing income gap

"Income gaps are widening," Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in his budget speech.

A "Progress Package" of government handouts last year was weighted in favour of lower-income groups and helped reduce that disparity.

The above is probably the gist of what the 2% increase in GST is all about. And with the lower income group getting the chunk of the $4 billion package, indeed