It is rather clear that the government’s political plan involves poor pensioners and even poorer employees. By trying to find a compromise between uncompromising solutions, fleeting promises and harsh reality, all the government achieves is to make the current situation worse.
Give that the expense for pension amounts to 16.2% of the GDP, in spite of all the cuts, it is clear that the problem cannot be solved with red lines and alchemy by Labor Minister Katrougalos. So what does the leftist government have left to do? Taxes and more taxes.
Our ministers consider everyone making over 1,000 euros to be rich, so they made a proposal to increase the maximum tax rate to 50% – they wanted it to be 60%, but the bad troika reacted – plus the solidarity contribution, namely 8%. On top of that there is the ENFIA and other taxes.
Instead of growth, instead of giving incentives to create jobs, the government is choosing to preserve the pensions and cut the income of those who still have jobs, under the belief that the pensioners help their unemployed children and grandchildren…
One can look into the recent tax declarations to truly understand the absurdity of the situation. About 2.5 million employees with 1.5 million children had an income of 34.7 billion euros. Meanwhile, the 2.7 million pensioners had an income of 29 billion euros. Simple math will show that pensioners make 30% more than employees.
The privatizations are stagnating because they are against the government ideology, where the stat is a fortress of clientelism, therefore those who can still survive will foot the bill…That is the political program of yet another government; politics without a plan, without prospects, without knowledge of the real economy and its problems. The people still wonder way after six years we are still at rock bottom, when other countries, such as Cyprus, have managed to overcome the bailouts and troika supervision…
TO VIMA
