A Reddit post entitled 'Traffic is the new tax' claimed an Oracle employee working in Bengaluru loses 2.5 months a year due to road congestion. "He earns ₹28 lakhs/year...pays ₹6.5 lakh income tax. Another ₹1.4 lakh GST...that's more than three months of work/year," it said. "Bengaluru citizens are milked to death," said one person. Bengaluru is being "choked", said another.