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sakurasuki
New prime minister by next month
paddletime
same song and dance, just a different voice, nothing changes
fxgai
30 trillion yen from Santa and the Tooth Fairy or Japanese equivalents is it?
Oh nice, won’t that make the Prime Minister feel so powerful..
30 trillion in spending and lower consumption tax rate - where are the gazillionaires that these clowns are going to tax instead to pay for it all?
Sorry bad news but Japan doesn’t have loads of billionaires and their combined wealth isn’t worth 30 trillion that these clowns want to spend before they cut consumption tax.
That said I believe I heard Takaichi of the LDP saying she’d blow away another when p trillion herself if she gets to be PM.
It doesn’t matter who becomes PM, because the only difference is which people get the grease.
If one wants lower taxes and commensurately smaller govt, one is out of luck it seems.
Simon Foston
fxgaiToday 08:44 am JST
I don't, personally. It just means having to pay for services provided by the private sector, and I think the people providing education, healthcare and essential utilities should be accountable to voters and taxpayers, not shareholders and CEOs whose main concern is the bottom line, not the public good.
indigo
The puppet circus will continue....
Aly Rustom
Not really. The real rulers of Japan are those at the top of Nippon Kaigi. The PM is a figurehead who really doesn't decide anything, so what difference does it make? This country is not a democracy.
exactly. you are nobody's fool. you get it.
That's really all it is.
Cricky
It’s already been decided. No need for the build up for something they could announce today.
happyhere
@cricky
Yup. Oh no, Kono it will be.
Aso basically announced this a while ago when he said Kishida was for peaceful times, not the "severe security situation Japan now faces".
Aso can count on Kono to continue upsetting the neighbours, so the "severe situation" the right-wingers want continues.
fxgai
Do you want the essential that is food provided by central government too?
If yes, well ok.