“SYRIZA and PASOK finally reveal their common soul in the process of gaining a common “flesh”. While they bombard us every day with horrendous theories about emergency taxes that slow growth by pushing back investment and new jobs, they insist on a big lie,” said the ND press spokesman. Akis Shertsos, citing the SYRIZA and PASOK tax cut programs.

“They are proposing permanent reductions in VAT on food and VAT on fuel, without saying what taxes they will increase on a permanent basis to cover the €3.5 billion shortfall that will arise in government revenue to fund fixed spending on health, education. and securityMr. Schertzos points out and adds:

“We remind them that permanent tax cuts require permanent equivalent, not emergency fiscal countermeasures. Therefore, we expect them to tell us what taxes they will raise in order to generate €3.5bn in revenue on an ongoing basis.

Moreover, they don’t explain to us why in Spain the socialist government of Sanchez, who tried to reduce the VAT by the same measurethis decline did not affect consumer prices, and food inflation continues to rise at a higher rate than in Greece.”

Mr. Schertzos notes that if both parties “were responsible political forces in power, they would propose correspondingly responsible measures. But they act, unfortunately, as complaining parties who hate responsibility and ridicule citizens to their faces. Unfortunately, they did not understand any of the messages of the first ballot box while revealing – intentionally or unintentionally – their ambitions for the second.

Source: RES-IPE

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