The Communist Party has put together an urgent economic measure that requires the government to reduce the consumption tax rate to 5%, saying that it is necessary to protect people's lives from corona damage and rising prices.

The Communist Party has put together an urgent economic measure that requires the government to formulate a supplementary budget and take measures, saying that the economy has been sluggish due to the corona disaster and that prices have risen and the people's lives have been seriously damaged. ..



Specifically, we are calling for the immediate reduction of the consumption tax rate to 5%, the expansion of benefits for people in need, and the cancellation of the reduction in the amount of public pension payments.



He also urges a drastic shift in fiscal and monetary policy, saying that the background of the soaring prices is the depreciation of the yen and the rise in import prices due to the BOJ's "other dimension of monetary easing" policy.



At a press conference, the Communist Party's policy chairman, Tamura, said, "Neoliberalism and'Abenomics' have made it a'fragile and weak economy.' We should consider formulating a supplementary budget. "