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Hungary’s budget 2018 – The plenary debate of the bill: Opposition parties slam budget bill
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Budapest, May 17 (MTI) – In a debate of the Fidesz government’s budget bill on Wednesday, opposition lawmakers slammed the bill as an “election budget” which would also boost graft.
The Socialist group leader called for the 2018 budget bill to be rewritten with a view to making it fair while “halting Fidesz corruption”.
The 2018 budget promotes social injustice and corruption because its rewards the rich while punishing the poor, Bertalan Tóth said.
“We’ve been paying more taxes over the past seven years, and yet less and less money is going towards the state because it’s funnelled to Fidesz’s stadiums, its propaganda and a nuclear plant that will never turn profit,” Tóth said.
Those with a monthly income of above 1 million forints (EUR 3,227) or assets of 100 million forints and above should be taxed more heavily, he said.
Attila Mesterházy, (Socialist) head of the parliamentary budget committee, said the Socialists proposed changes to spending in the social sector, health care and education. He said that family benefits had not risen since 2008 and he proposed raising them by 35 percent. Further, maternity and child support should also be hiked, he added.
