• misk@piefed.social
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    13 hours ago

    Maybe the new Hungarian government won’t be left economically but at least they won’t be progressive on social issues, huh? Keep on winning, liberals. You won’t hear a peep on this from EU starting now though so it’s all good.

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      https://magyartisza.hu/program

      Their program is available for all to see, you don’t have to guess.

      • Reduce minimum wage tax from 15% to 9%.
      • Lower income tax for workers earning below the median wage.
      • Tax the super-rich with a 1% annual wealth tax on assets over 1 billion HUF.
      • Cut VAT on firewood, healthy food, and prescription medicines.
      • Double family allowances, maternity support, and childcare benefits.
      • Guarantee a minimum pension of 120,000 HUF per month.
      • Provide “Pensioner SZÉP Cards” with up to 200,000 HUF in annual support.
      • Increase home care fees by 50% for family caregivers.
      • Give a “Newborn Kit” worth 50,000 HUF to every baby.
      • Increase pay by 25% for social sector and educational assistants.
      • Strengthen union rights.
      • Enforce equal pay for equal work between men and women.
      • Maintain tuition-free first university degrees.
      • Build social rental housing and more student dormitories.
      • End period poverty by providing free hygiene products in state schools.
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        4 hours ago

        Liberal populism - where are taxes to offset those tax cuts? They’re going to be promised but never happen and it’s going to end up with privatisation of public services. It’s how neoliberals work in Europe. That’s what made Orban and similar autocrats in the first place and why he will be back. I’m happy to take bets if needed, I’ve seen this way too many times already to fall for it again.

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          You know you I linked the full pdf? Seeing you being an autist as well, I assumed you value veracity over confabulation.

          The answer is very plain: tax credits, recover 8000 billion frozen eu funds, 2000B annually, not spending thosands of billions on state propaganda, stopping overpriced (and rigged) puplic procurements, recovering the privatised oligarch funds etc.

          The annual super rich wealth tax is an inflow.

          But most importantly, cutting back on the servicing of debt. Hungary has very espensive debt, even when its relative value to GDP is normal. And this debt factor hugely depends on investor confidence, which is very positive if you look at the currency valuation as a proxy.

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            1 hour ago

            I was naive like that too, now wait and see what happens in reality. This fixation on debt in nominal values is a tell for neoliberal talk - in reality that debt will balloon even more with the tax cuts and soon austerity will be needed (surprise!).

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          Tax the super rich was point number 3. Although it should be more like 90% tax on anything earned over 1 billion.

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            You’re treating electoral promises like something serious but it’s Eastern Europe and there’s no consequences to lying in politics. Never listen to what politicians say and just monitor what they do unless you want to be disappointed over and over again. The end goal of pro business parties is privatisation of public services, always.

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                1 hour ago

                If you ever need someone to say „told you so” in the future you know where to look. This is naïveté is why people like Orban will return.

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                  51 minutes ago

                  He already has returned. This was it after losing to MSZP 4 terms ago. You don’t have to tell me more, as an outsider you are working with very limited information.

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                    I have lots of insider information on living in an Eastern European neoliberal hellhole. Hungary isn’t special.