It could have been done differently!

I listened live, most expectantly, to the first two consecutive budgets presented by the present Finance Minister the Honorable Yuvaraj Khatiwada, I decided to sit out the third edition knowing that he would be delivering more of the same. I was not wrong! Then, the morning after, having read the salient features, and in a fit of frustration, I tweeted a criticism. A dear friend promptly asked me, "What would you have done differently?" Instead of a detailed reply, I put him off by telling him that, in the present context, that is information he would have to pay for. But, his question hung in the air. Begging an answer. After some days of his query bouncing around in my head,  I decided that I would put pen to paper, as it were and list the things I, a layman, would have attempted to do differently, given the same set of circumstances.  Roughly two weeks have passed since the technocrat finance minister delivered his tome and on the face of it he has tried to address the fol...