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Today (16th), the second day of the government question, the National Assembly had a debate over the government's tax reform plan to lower the income tax and corporate tax.

Democrats criticized the tax cuts for rich people and corporations, but the government countered that it was designed to benefit people with less money.



For more details, reporter Kim Hyung-rae will tell you.



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Democratic lawmakers all criticized the Yoon Seok-yeol administration's tax reform plan, which included cuts in income and corporate taxes, as tax cuts for chaebols and tax cuts for the rich.



When the corporate tax is cut by 3 percentage points, the average tax benefit is 50 billion won for large corporations, but only 2.9 million won for small businesses.



He also claimed that only the top 2% who pay comprehensive real estate tax will receive tens of millions of won in reductions.



[Shin Dong-geun / Democratic Party Member: Listen!

The People’s Power and the Yun Seok-yeol government have given up on walking with the weak and are accommodating the strong and the rich as they are used to.]



Deputy Prime Minister Choo Kyung-ho is making a tax cut to increase disposable income even a little in a difficult economic situation. , countered that it was not a tax cut for the rich.



[Cho Kyung-ho / Deputy Prime Minister of Economy: The rate of tax that is reduced from the current level is designed so that the proportion of those in the lower section is much larger, that is, the range of tax reduction is widened…

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People's Power lawmakers counterattacked by claiming that the Moon Jae-in government is responsible for the current economic crisis.



In particular, he criticized the policy failure of the previous government, saying that the current government had no choice but to raise electricity rates because of the nuclear phase-out policy.



[Han Moo-kyung/Rep. of People's Strength: Can this be understood as saying that the cost of purchasing electricity has increased while reducing the use of nuclear power plants that produce relatively cheap electricity and rapidly expanding expensive new and renewable energy?]



[Lee Chang-yang/Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy: Electricity In terms

of mix, yes.]



Controversy over the Police Department continued.



When Rep. Kim Han-jeong of the Democratic Party of Korea pressured Prime Minister Han Deok-soo to demand the sacking of Minister of Public Administration and Security Lee Sang-min, the People's Power seat responded with protests and loud voices, saying, "Ask economic questions."



(Video Correspondent: Cho Chun-Dong, Video Edit: Kim Jin-Won)