Opposition questions Kishida in Diet over tax hike plan

Opposition questions Kishida in Diet over tax hike plan

Not only opposition, everyone question tax hike while wage still flat.

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japan%27s-middle-class-being-gutted-as-salaries-fall

On the macroeconomic front, Kishida promised that the government will work in tandem with the Bank of Japan to realize growth and price stability in combination with expansion of wages that have shown few signs of sharply rising in decades.

Repetition of the same means with the same variables and expecting different results is a logical failure.

But it is also a form of control.

BOJ policies as stated have not raised wages for decades. The monetary easing has just been a reliable source of easy money for large holders of capital.

But Kishida and the LDP will continue to cite it as an example of how they are getting to work on solving Japan's socioeconomic woes.

The fact is, the LDP for itself likes it the way it is.

It is questionable whether the people of Japan need to have leaders or even politicians that seem to ‘take’ without giving anything in return.

my guess is he'll raise taxes before the election. The sad thing is that people here will just vote the LDP right back in.

so this japanese demokrashiiii

I think as do the LDP, if people can afford heating in their house they can afford a tax rise.

Kishida promised that the government will work in tandem with the Bank of Japan to realize growth and price stability

This sounds great, only the BoJ has an Orwellian definition of "price stability"; they seem to think that increasing prices means "stable" prices. And they never get called out on this. Their policies are bad enough for working people, but the least they could do is stop lying to them.

The questions put to Fumio Kishida and the answers given cannot be called a’debate’

Watching the Japanese parliamentary sessions is in action is akin to watching automatons out act a program.

Everything is pre-scripted and the answers that Kishida gives are never clarified only repeated.