“Revelatory of the government’s intentions and the obsessions of the N.D.”, Nikos Pappas described the debate on the budget during his presentation today in the Plenary.

The SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance parliamentary representative pointed out that the government’s economic staff “neither responded nor committed to improvements” on a number of issues, such as the fact that “the country made, last year, a 27-year record in tax collection as a percentage of GDP , as it reached 29%, while if we add the insurance contributions we go to 43%”, for the fact that “indirect taxes approach 2/3 of the total taxation collections” and for the fact that “VAT collections have increased by 7 billion euros after 2021, i.e. by 40%”.

As far as the average salary is concerned, the head of Finance of K.O. of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance noted that “it’s not so much that your promise to increase it conflicts with what the Commission foresees, it’s mainly that you don’t miss an opportunity to bring regulations that compress wages down”. He explained, right after, that “you did not fail in the tax bill, where your monstrous lie is revealed that you will not tax the middle class, to include a provision that turns small and medium-sized business owners into wage squeezers. Since you tell them that “if you increase the employee’s salary, I will increase your presumption and tax”. This is the inhumane social engineering you have legislated.”

On the occasion of the Kairides amendment, he said to the ND: “You have come into conflict with reality and are in danger of political amputation.” Having described a little earlier that “on national and immigration issues, the right is doing political marketing. It has no politics. He uses them in the context of a communication policy, aimed at stimulating very humble instincts. You want to convince the people, to whom your policies are causing pain, that the pain is not your fault but the downtrodden in the next country or the poor next door.”

Closing his presentation he emphasized: “You are doing everything to widen and multiply the inequalities that arise from the accuracy, from the housing crisis, from the debt crisis. The country needs a great progressive turn and this is served by SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance with its program, which does not divide but unites forces from the left to the progressive center. For a progressive, scalable, uniform rate for all incomes, for a progressive rate for business, for a growth that concerns everyone, for the goal of a new collective prosperity”.