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Post by jed on May 21, 2008 8:40:10 GMT 8
I see in the news that the consumpton tax (is that the right word?) shohizei in Japanese might have to be raised from the present 5% to 17% in the future?
Boy, I hope I am not here then. Thats a big increase!
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yopparaisaru
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Post by yopparaisaru on May 21, 2008 9:02:12 GMT 8
Damn, thats one hell of a tax hike... Do you have a link for that article by any chance, preferably translated but possibly workable in the original japanese over the course of a few days...? lol Other than that no other comments other than to second that hope of not being here when it/if it hits.
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Post by Otaku on May 21, 2008 9:30:10 GMT 8
I 3rd that...I hope I'm not here!
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Post by jed on May 21, 2008 9:51:09 GMT 8
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Post by junkdna on May 21, 2008 12:42:47 GMT 8
This doesn't make any damn sense: "Providing all pensioners the full basic pension, with extra payments for those who paid their premiums in full."
If you paid your premiums in full, as nice as it would be to get more money, just pay out the regular premiums please. I think a promise like this would have to be rescinded as there is no way it could be maintained, due to unforeseen future policy changes, wars, natural disasters, you name it. It would only put us BACK into debt and make people angry that they are not getting plus-premiums when it was evenutally rescinded. A foolish idea all around.
I want to know why newspapers/media outlets are proposing tax changes to the government. This is an extremely disturbing concept to me.
The real problem is that the Japanese have been living in a wonderland of unsupportable charity for the longest time (taxwise anyway). The Consumption Tax went into effect in 1989 while I was a high school exchange student. It was a bitch at the time going from zero to five, but there has been no change since. Why hasn't the government been slowly increasing this tax by say, two percent every five years or so? If they had, they would have eased consumers into it AND generated necessary funds for policy programs at the same time. It's just flippin' childish to make jumps now.
Let me work this... two percent every five years. It's been twenty years since induction. We would be at thirteen percent by now. That's not so bad.
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Post by yopparaisaru on May 21, 2008 14:19:49 GMT 8
But Junk, that would require forethought and logical reasoning skills on the behalf of the Japanese government. You know, the same government that dumps concrete down mountain sides to prevent landslides during earthquakes...(Hmm...now not only are dirt and trees crashing down on our heads but also chunks of concrete...)
On a serious note however (and a little off topic) if it does get passed I'd be more worried about the money from the tax leaking into the politicians pockets rather than the pensioners who its for. Then I'd be more worried about incremental tax hikes to further exploit the japanese public whom everyone should know knows absolutely nothing about politics nor their politicians...
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Post by junkdna on May 23, 2008 8:07:47 GMT 8
heh
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