Socialists to submit ‘Stop oligarchs’ bill to parliament

The opposition Socialists will submit to parliament a law package dubbed “Stop oligarchs” that would levy a special 75 percent tax on “the hustlers of the past eight years”.

Speaking at a press conference in Budapest on Saturday, MP Tamás Harangozó said, referring to the government’s “Stop Soros” bill, that Hungary is not under threat from a “distant elderly man” but from “[Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán’s oligarchs”, who take opportunities of education from children and health care from the sick “while getting excessively rich by stealing taxpayers’ money”.

The law package comprises three amendments. The first two are about “holding accountable the swindlers of the past eight years and recovering their extra profit”, and the third one would guarantee that “such foul deeds cannot be committed again in future, no matter who is governing the country,” the politician said.