Greedy bastards:
It's natural to propose that the consumption tax rate be raised to 10 percent in about five years from now," Hiromitsu Ishi, chairman of the Tax Commission, an advisory panel to the prime minister, said in a program on a satellite TV station affiliated with Tokyo Broadcasting System
Yeah, especially when you have to cover the costs of spying on Japanese citizens who exercise their legal rights to government information, pay for hooers in the MOFA, and fund boondoggles like their concrete fetish.
Nice trick here:
Ishi pointed out that deep cuts in government spending would not be enough to drastically reduce the huge budget deficit. "Even if the expenditure is reduced, it will not fundamentally balance the budget. We have no choice but to transform the tax system into one with the consumption tax as its core."
No, you have it wrong sir. This is what a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" should do:
Step 1 - Reduce spending on non-essential items: all employees for Diet member are covered through personal money, not subsidized by the government. If you like, let young people volunteer for the duty (gratis), but in no circumstances can you bleed the coffers for your own workers
Step 2 - Critically review military defense expeditures in Japan
Step 3 - For every year Japan runs a deficit, diet members take a 50% pay reduction to be IOU'd when the government gets back into the black
Step 4 - Work for the reduction of taxation on the people, so they (not the government) can pull this country out of the economic tarpit
Really, the way these politicians carry on, you'd think that the Constitutional article forbidding titles of nobility never existed.
