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Knesset approves VAT raise amid bi-partisan criticism
Moran Azulay
Published: 29.05.13, 18:43
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1. Just (NOT) wonderful: thanks Lapid!
(05.29.13)
2. problem is we got an amateur FM & a system that allow it
zionist forever   (05.29.13)
Problem was not lobbyists it was Lapid himself the man is a complete amateur who thinks Ricki Cohen who owns her home and takes 2 foreign holidays a year represents the average middle class Israeli. He has been a pampered prince all his life who doesn't know the first thing about the middle class. There was a justification for some tax rises and cutbacks but they needed to be targeted in certain areas but Lapid used a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel and now everybody is hurting. The real solution to these problem is the one we can't have and thats an end to this kind of coalition government. In most systems a politician starts at the bottom spends a couple of years learning the ropes, then move onto junior ministry then something more senior, here you can enter politics demanding almost any senior ministry you like as a condition of helping to form a coalition. If you do we'll enough you cen enter the Knesset first time as the PM which Lapid said he intended to be within 16 months. As bad as Lapid is I hope that Shelly never wins an election because she will spend so much to prove she is a socialist woman of the people we will end up the ext Greece.
3. I'm done...
Mr Middle-Class ,   jerusalem   (05.29.13)
I'm sick of it. So first the government takes 50% from my income and now 18% on what I spend. Meanwhile house prices keep going up, up, up. So I work for the government and the banks and the tycoons and can't even afford a home. I'm quitting my job and let the government pay my unemployment.
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