Japan enacts ¥19 tril extra budget to fight virus amid criticism

another good move by japan government.As in very country,,They will give you some but They will get more from you..

Opposition lawmakers had demanded that non-urgent spending, such as for the government's controversial Go To Travel subsidy program, should be redirected to provide financial aid to medical workers and people in need, but the ruling parties opposed revising the package.

Opposition Party: During this pandemic and economic crisis the best way to spend our resources is to assist our overworked and underappreciated medical workers and the public in precarious circumstances, isn't it?

LDP: No.

Here is more money for GoTo programs, financial bailouts and the Olympics.

End of debate.

The government will use 2 trillion yen to establish a fund for companies developing green technologies as part of efforts to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and spur economic growth, one of Suga's signature policies.

Now this is one thick pork barrel!! Who is auditing these companies, and what return do I get out of investing my tax money like this?

Wanna bet that some if not all of this cutting edge "green technology"high-tech developing companies still use faxes and stamped paper in their ultra advanced process?

Nothing to do with CoVid fighting on top of that.

Throw money at eveything but the people who pay tax. Goodness me a profit making company is only as profitable as the tax payer money they receive.

Now I wonder where this money is going. Only yesterday, Suga said "do not look to the government to take care of you. As a last resort, claim wlefare".

That's all they are doing - if you lose your job, sign on. So why does that need 19 trillion yen and who is getting it?

Dentsu, IOC/JOC, I'm looking at you.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but it seems no one is interested into asking "and how much of that money will be actually used to fight the virus?". Instead, they will outsource everything to private companies, print various leaflets, create more "cute" mascots and mascots of mascots.. How about giving more money to the workers who deal with this? Hospitals, hospital workers, pulmonology.... anyone? They need the money more than nonsense like go to campaigns, mascots, simulations or researching something that has been done previously. Once the medical staff like pulmonology workers drops dead either from exhaustion or infected, what will our dear Government do? More helicopter money? Overpriced abbenomasuku again in order to keep people quiet?

You could also have burnt those trillions right after they come out of the printer and would still have the same results, the virus still there, the economy on crash course, people getting poorer, too many seniors in relation to childbearing and so on. It doesn’t lack money, obviously, but it lacks plans , strategies, ideas, thinking.

Now I wonder where this money is going. Only yesterday, Suga said "do not look to the government to take care of you. As a last resort, claim welfare".

That's all they are doing - if you lose your job, sign on. So why does that need 19 trillion yen and who is getting it?

That would be welfare like "Hello Work" which isn't available to freelancers, right?

Or welfare like Rent Support where they pay direct to the landlord which will probably make you look bad or screw your credit rating. But even then they'll only do that after tapping your relatives or the guarantor company which will probably make you look bad or screw your credit rating.

Or just general welfare, where they will (for no good reason) inform your relatives that you are claiming welfare, which will definitely make you look bad.

The most frustrating thing is that, with summer and vaccines coming on line, we're probably only a few months from the end of the worst... but if people are losing jobs or houses at this stage, that's going to have a much bigger longer term impact on both them and their families, and on the economy.

I'm all for helping the environment, but right now doesn't seem to be the time. Now is the time for the government to take care of people, as other governments around the world are doing.

This is a massive budget, and I honestly have no idea where about 80% of it is even going to go, or what good it's going to do. Crazy.

The corruption in the Go To Campaign is crazy even in third world country standards. 1.1 Trillion Yen must be spent by end of March, and the campaign isn't even restarted. You all know that most of those money will be ending up in the bank accounts of politicians, their families, and their friends.

Sven Asai

It doesn’t lack money, obviously, but it lacks plans , strategies, ideas, thinking.

Hear hear!

Good job LDP. Taking care the people. Well done.

The people the LDP obviously don't give two figs about always vote them back in..........time I started to lose respect and started to not feel sorry for the local people.

If a independent audit was allowed to vet the Japanese government spending.....now that's a huge loss of face.and an answer of where these money's are going.

where these money's are going.

The toilet.

And so it will be so long as we permit central governments to tax away so much money each year. Central government will never spend our money as well as we will spend it ourselves; the best we can do about it is seek to limit it.

This has been a losing battle for a time now though unfortunately.