‘The narrative of the government that supposedly diminishes taxes has collapsed’
The PASOK-Machine Press Spokesman Kostas Tsoukalas He said in the “Mega Weekend” show that it is not successful in six years, in a country without a Memorandum, with 70 billion euros from the recovery fund, a new CAP, the NSRF that it increased only 4 points, while in Eastern Europe it is rising at a much higher pace. “Are you proud of this? Are you speaking seriously? This is a confession of complete failure, “responding to the report of the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security, Anna Efthimiou.
“The narrative of the government that is supposed to reduce taxes has collapsed. It collapsed because hundreds of thousands of professionals were taxed by imputed taxation, because the insurance contributions of professionals are increasing each year, and because, as the studies of systemic credit institutions show, from the non -price taxation of the tax scale, what it gives, By Kyriakos Mitsotakis,
“They say they have reduced taxes. But if they had reduced taxes, they wouldn’t say that “now it’s time to cut taxes”. It is a government that increases taxes, scratching the middle class, “he added.
On the housing and the demographic issue, he charged the New Democracy that “it has ruled six years and we have the least births than ever, and we are not in crisis. We have been out of the memorandum for seven years, the six are ruled by the New Democracy and births are collapsing.
Kostas Tsoukalas also recalled a series of commitments by the Mitsotakis government before its election in 2019:
“He had said he would abolish the Katrougalos law in the first two years. It’s been seven years and did nothing. He applied him more faithfully than everyone.
He had said he would give retirees retroactively if the courts say. Did not apply judicial decisions.
He had said it would be a liberal government and that we will have the independence of the institutions. And he went to check everything.
He had said that he would be able to have social mobility – for a social elevator, Mr Mitsotakis was talking – and we were governed by GDP anemic, to significantly rise the profitability of the big groups and to collapse the purchasing power of the citizens, with conscious political choices.
We highlighted this with the “Black Bible”, with elements and evidence. Isn’t it paradoxical that the government did not retrieve a number from what we said? All he cares about is to compare to the Memorandum period. But alas if the country is barred is the situation that existed during the economic crisis that led us to the New Democracy policy! “PASOK-KINAL spokesman said.
Mr Tsoukalas emphasized that the goal of the change of change is “the pandemic social demand for the New Democracy to become a positive demand for change. And we are already doing this with our positions and you will see it in the TIF.
“The point is not to confine ourselves to a logic of benefits within an electoral cycle. As Nikos Androulakis says, we first change, renovate and radically reform the state, because without a strong, credible state with transparency, we cannot have growth, “he added.
Called to comment on Alexis Tsipras’ speech at the Economist conference, Costas Tsoukalas pointed out that “I heard many PASOK’s speech in the speech. Because phrases such as “National Plan”, criticism that the Mitsotakis government “was a missed opportunity”, proposals for the creation of a “National Convergence Fund”, “Made in Greece Development Plan” have been said by PASOK and Nikos Androulakis “.
He also emphasized that “there is a party that today has positions and proposals and is PASOK what makes a real opposition” and attributed to the New Democracy an attempt to tool, explaining:
“The government is trying to disorient from its own collapse and the panic in which it is. Apparently, it seeks artificial polarization and division to rally the voters who abandon it massively and definitively. The prime minister is obviously afraid of Mr Androulakis and PASOK. Our opponent is the New Democracy, PASOK is the power of political change that the place needs to get out of today’s impasses, “Mr Tsoukalas said.