Governors want political parties to include tough anti-virus steps in campaign pledges

Governors want political parties to include tough anti-virus steps in campaign pledges

Those governors never ask political parties to include population decline in campaign pledge? Who will work and pay taxes if you don't have enough people?

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/as-japan-celebrates-its-elderly-a-population-crisis-looms-with-scarcity-of-babies

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who became Japan's leader on Monday, has said he will dissolve the lower house on Oct 14 for an election on Oct 31.

Halloween Election.. cool

better (detaiked) plans, than pledges..... or haven't the governors noticed.....

Kishida changed all three corona related ministers in his new government. This puzzles me very much. The three did good jobs. They experienced a lot and know about the problems. Compared with the three, new ministers are amateur levels. I suspect about their competencies.

Someone’s getting rich off vaccines.

Someone’s getting rich off vaccines.

So you don't agree with capitalism?

Campaign pledges are just vote grabbing butt talk. Rarely are they followed through. I distinctly remember all the guff Abe spouted for his campaign none of which ever happened. Now Kishida is spouting salary increases to get votes. It’s all just vote grubbing rubbish.

There is continual harping about demographics and tax monies, as if a bookkeeping equation - a matter similar to balancing a checkbook, which is completely erroneous. A reduction in overall population is all to the good. It reduces resource dependency and allows a shift to a sustainable economy. The concern is geographics, in terms of population distribution.

The elderly population will eventually be reduced by attrition and a balance will evolve in terms of demographics. The temporary need is to provide welfare & pension benefits, which is easily remedied, as the yen is a fiat currency. Solved by issuing bonds, instead of boosting taxes or cutting public spending.

As for Japan's debt, 90% is held by domestic investors. All of that debt can simply be written off by the Bank of Japan, an accounting trick with no consequences. One might also note, the USA is almost 1.3 trillion in debt to Japan. In total, Japan is the world's biggest creditor, holding more than $3 trillion in net assets in foreign currency reserves and direct investment abroad.

StrangerlandToday  09:42 am JST

Someone’s getting rich off vaccines.

So you don't agree with capitalism?

Not crony capitalism.

…include increasing subsidies to support local businesses affected by the pandemic by about 2 trillion yen

In fact, they take our money and give it to the businesses, but we don’t get any, products, meals or service for that in return? Of course it’s a good thing to support businesses, don’t understand me wrong, but the normal way would be, the population gets back tax money or may keep its money and then goes to the businesses, spending for anything and supporting them. But so, our money is taken for nothing and if that help process runs out, we can’t afford to go to the businesses as usual, so their shutdown is only postponed a little bit. IMO that’s anyhow a quite wrong concept and not so much logical. Maybe they speculated that the economy comes back on track, so our loss is refilled afterwards and in the meantime the businesses kept. But that’s a miscalculation and won’t happen.

Not crony capitalism.

Do you understand what crony capitalism means?

JimizoToday  02:17 pm JST

Not crony capitalism.

Do you understand what crony capitalism means?

Of course.

But your post indicates that you don't.

(friendly hint: capitalism and crony capitalism aren't the same thing)

They also include increasing subsidies to support local businesses affected by the pandemic by about 2 trillion yen, 

More subsidies…. Sheez

These governors should butt out. The political parties are supposed to be voted for by the plebs, not you governors. You governors need to deal with your own stuff by yourselves and not demand a piece of my taxes as if it’s yours.

All of that debt can simply be written off by the Bank of Japan, an accounting trick with no consequences.

And I have a quadrillion yen worth of bridge to sell you.