Έ. Ahtsioglou: ‘Government is watering the money trees of notoriety’

“The government is watering the money trees of notoriety” said in her position the head of Finance of SYRIZA-PS, Efi Ahtsioglou. The government “blames everyone else for money trees, but it irrigates the money trees of notoriety”, he said, noting that “the government’s economic policy is out of place and time, completely ignores the needs of the social majority, insists on not interfering in the market insists on subsidizing filthy profits and super-profits, discriminates in favor of the highest incomes, finds insurmountable budgetary constraints only when serious measures are to be taken in favor of the social majority. “Since December, we have been voting against it even today, but now the Greek society as a whole is voting against it more and more clearly,” said the official opposition MP.

The government is artificially delaying the taking of drastic measures, such as the taxation of the super profits of the energy companies, said in his speech the MP of the Movement for Change Costas Skandalidis, referring to the increase in energy prices. He even stressed that the PPC bills that were sent to households in the last few days “are murderous”. Regarding the Supplementary Budget, he expressed the fear that “in the coming months you will be forced to bring a new supplementary budget, because again you will fall out of your calculations”.

Any interventions will remain ineffective as long as the basic anti-popular character of the Budget itself does not change, that is, the glaring disproportion it has to do with and from whom it will receive, with the bulk of the tax burden remaining on the backs of employees and of the popular strata, but also with whom it gives them, said the KKE MP Maria Komninaka, talking about the Supplementary Budget. He also noted that the ongoing debate over independence from Russian gas “is finally turning into dependence on the more expensive American LNG, where people will pay for gold, at the same time as Greek shipowners will be doing gold work around transportation and its storage “.

The money from the Supplementary Budget will come from the over-taxation of Greeks on the increased prices, said the parliamentary representative of the Hellenic Solution, Costas Hitas, even calling the Budget that was voted four months ago “rubbish”. He also estimated that the aid (of the Supplementary Budget) will not arrive, because with the political choices of the government “the sanctions will be permanent against Greece and the transition with the very expensive liquefied gas, LNG, the scandal party will continue to exist”. .

We are voting against the Supplementary Budget, as we voted against the Budget, said the speaker of MERA25, George Logiadis. In order to deal with the accuracy, he proposed the “immediate abolition of the fake energy exchange” that, as he said, SYRIZA started and ND continues, automatic indexation of the minimum wage, the reduction of indirect unbearable taxes that lead to irregularity and irregularity. , the abolition of the excise tax on fuel for farmers, as applicable to fishermen and shipowners, and the establishment of a public social housing organization.

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