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Originally Posted by Quarkboy
In america, any politician running on a platform of "double the sales tax" would be laughed out of the country.
Does such a position in Japan actually have any popular support?
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I guess unlike the US, tax hike(reforms) in Japan it is accepted more as a nutrual agenda.
Japan is more of a Liberal authoritarian society than a republican state accepting limitation of freedom to obtain benefit as a society as a whole, like nation wide mass transit system, universal insurance and so on.
The key to this debate is fairness, but at the moment the bureaucrat are sapping away tax money with no real consideration of the general public and the LDP government is impotent to correct that situation and some will even comes back saying we need to hike up taxes to obtain primary balance?
If the politicians real can show a better future 20 years down the road then a proposal for tax hike will be seriously considered by the voters but not in a situation like now.