“The draft Budget 2024 it proves the government’s dogmatic obsession with its dead-end economic policy far from the real needs of society”, say SYRIZA circles, at the same time formulating the opinion that “it does not deal with the huge problem of accuracy that it is suffocating households and businesses, the enormous cost of housing, the problem of debts and first home auctions”.

Regarding salaries, sources from Koumoundourou note that “they do not make up for the big cuts of the past in salaries and pensions and above all, they are completely exhausted by the inflation rally”.

They even point out that “Greece won for October pan-European first in food inflation and the government underestimates the intelligence of the citizens by sticking to the half-measures of coupons and baskets and announcing (only to be disproved a little later…) sophistry about canceling the companies’ offers”.

For freelancers, as they note, a “horizontal tax” is imposed, proving its complete inadequacy in dealing with tax evasion and insisting on the logic of the Pissarides plan, which considers the destruction of small and medium-sized businesses a blessing. It’s about her absolute deception but also the complete surprise of taxpayers who are called to be taxed for the incomes of 2023 with a new burdensome framework which is voted at the end of 2023!”

The same sources also state that “where it exists real alalum is with VAT where the government at a time when we have precision everywhere and a jump in the cost of products and raw materials, increases the VAT to 24% for certain categories of goods (non-alcoholic beverages and beverages other than coffee).

The ND and Kyriakos Mitsotakis told us before the election that there would be no tax increase. Today it imposes unfair direct horizontal taxation on freelancers and the self-employed, while at the same time insisting on the unfair overtaxation of citizens through indirect taxes.

The truth is undisputed: The government extorts huge sums from taxpayers through indirect taxes and then returns a small fraction of them in the form of various passes. This is the allegedly successful economic model of Mr. Mitsotakis…

SYRIZA – PS as a responsible progressive force and in cooperation with the scientific and social bodies will resist in every way the government policies that strangle the real economy, increase inequalities and intensify the climate of economic insecurity”.