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Nak-Yeon Lee’Simultaneous selection and support for the whole country’… “It is difficult to accept the government”
“The Minister (Deputy Prime Minister Hong) will stop any unjust criticism against the Ministry of Finance.”
Regarding the comments of the Democratic Party’s representative Lee Nak-yeon, “I will organize an additional budget (additional budget),” Nam-ki Hong, deputy prime minister of the economy and Minister of Strategy and Finance, put a brake on it, saying, “The minister will stop it.” From last year’s 1st~4th supplementary administration to the 1st~3rd disaster support fund, at first, he expressed negative opinions, but eventually accepted the ruling party’s request and reversed his position. Noted.
On the 2nd, Deputy Prime Minister Hong said on his Facebook page on the 2nd, “It is difficult for the government to do both universal support and selection support at the same time.” .
Deputy Prime Minister Hong posted a 1518-character long post on Facebook about three hours after Lee Nak-yeon’s speech to the National Assembly ended. In this article, Deputy Prime Minister Hong expressed his feelings about Lee’s speech.
“When making policy decisions, the necessity and rationality of a policy are important, but it is important to remember that all policy decisions have cost and limitations,” he said. “Neither the government nor I I want to apply, but the conditions are not easy.” He said that the value of “the right place to apply where needed” is very important and basic, rather than “the more is better,” he said.
Previously, it is true that the increase in national debt has been unprecedented, but there are times when the country has to be properly released. When it is released, it can be refilled. This is interpreted as a content that criticized Lee Nak-yeon’s speech.
Deputy Prime Minister Hong, who has already emphasized the position that the government has played a sufficient role in the fiscal role, referred to the expression “crackkeeper” that Lee used several times. On the 23rd of last month, CEO Lee said to Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myeong, who attacked the fiscal authorities while insisting on expanding finances to respond to the coronavirus, saying, “It is not what it will be to condemn the crater of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. It was an atmosphere that did not hide discomfort in expression. Condemnation is usually a word used by superiors to subordinates. Subordinates do not use the word curse for their superiors. “From when did the deputy prime minister of the economy have been a subordinate to the ruling party’s representative?” “Will he soothe a crying child?”
Deputy Prime Minister Hong set the day, saying, “There are some points that dismiss the Ministry of Finance as saying that finances do not play its role or that it is simply a barn. It is not appropriate and intelligent and did not act that way.” At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister Hong said, “The third disaster support payment will be completed in March, and the financial situation, which is the initial stage of this year’s super budget execution, should be taken into account. It is judged that the organization will do so,” he said.
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However, it is unclear whether Hong’s ninth conviction will be fulfilled in a situation where’Deputy Prime Minister Passing’ becomes a routine. During that time, many times, he made his own arguments against the demands of the politicians, but most of them concluded differently from the will of Deputy Prime Minister Hong. In November of last year, when the public resignation was made when his opinion was not accepted, after meeting the political demand to withdraw the lowering of the stock capital gains tax of the largest shareholders by KRW 300 million differently from the original plan, it caused a commotion of withdrawing the resignation within one day of filing.
Deputy Prime Minister Hong said he would not review the stock exchange tax in 2019, but it was decided to cut it by 0.05 percentage points (P). In March of that year, he said he would not review the fine dust supplementation, but an additional supplement was organized. In April of last year, 70% of the emergency disaster support payment was proposed, but the payment of all citizens was decided according to the ruling party’s will. There were few cases in which the final decision was made according to the opinion of Deputy Prime Minister Hong, such as the real estate supervisory body, the second disaster subsidy, and fiscal rules.
Last month, when Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun promoted the legalization of loss compensation, Vice Minister Kim Yong-beom indirectly expressed his opposition, saying, “It is difficult to find a country that has legalized it.” In response, Prime Minister Jung exclaimed, “Reform resistance forces” and “Is this the country of the Ministry of Information and Technology.” Accordingly, on the 22nd of last month, Deputy Prime Minister Hong stepped back on Facebook, saying, “I will deeply consider and review the plan to systemize loss compensation for the self-employed business.”
On the surface, while expressing his intention to follow Prime Minister Chung’s instructions, Deputy Prime Minister Hong also refuted against the legalization of loss compensation, saying, “Because it is a’path that no one has gone through’, there is a lot to point out. It takes time.”
The atmosphere of’beyond the province’ prevails against the ruling party’s’restraint’ inside the base station. It is pointed out that Deputy Prime Minister Hong’s opposition to Lee Nak-yeon’s order to organize an additional account is because he was conscious of this internal atmosphere. Former Deputy Prime Minister of Economic Affairs said, “It is the main reason to debate fiercely internally and to present a unified message to the people externally, but when the Blue House and the politicians make excessively anti-market demands, they can confidently speak out against them. I need to know.”