The opposition wants to withdraw from its election promises and justify them by juggling numbers. Hence the panic in their eyes and hence the use of Jerzy Urban’s methods – Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview for Interia published on Saturday.
The Prime Minister was asked about, among other things, declining tax revenues and increasing repayments of foreign government debts.
Tax revenue growth – with all the protective shields and corporate tax cuts and the PIT that we have introduced – is not as dynamic, but we must be held accountable for that for eight years.
– he pointed.
He emphasized that PiS had doubled revenues for the state budget – with tax cuts of almost PLN 60 billion.
That’s an increase of 115 percent! Please show me the second country in the world that would more than double its budget with such a tax cut. And look at the abysmal record of Tusk’s government. An increase of twelve percent. Why? Because they don’t know how to manage a budget. They led to a monstrous budget deficit. These are data from Eurostat
– he said.
As he explained, debt service costs are rising “due to the pandemic, inflation, the war in Ukraine and geopolitical risks.”
I admit it is increasing, but it has nothing to do with PiS’s economic policies. These costs are rising at the same rate in the Czech Republic, Italy, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Slovakia.
– he pointed out.
When asked to comment on Ludwik Kotecki’s text, published on Money.pl, in which the economist stated that “we have a record budget deficit and record borrowing needs”, the Prime Minister said this was demagoguery.
Ludwik Kotecki knows the financial markets and knows that the European Commission analyzes every zloty and that nothing can be hidden from the financial markets. But he used nominal values in this case. This is demagoguery. Only percentages, and not nominal values, reflect the true state of public finances. Our national debt to GDP ratio has fallen! We can look at our eight years from this perspective – and we will see in black and white that it has decreased by more than three percentage points
– he said.
He pointed out that the deficit presented to Brussels is more than 4%. GDP.
After all, we are at almost 4 percent. We spend GDP on the military! If we were to subtract this enormous and necessary military expenditure, we would have an essentially balanced budget
– he declared.
When asked about allegations regarding expenditure outside the state budget, the Prime Minister replied:
I understand the voices of the Platform’s propagandists. I understand “experts” in the field of black PR, followers of Goebbels’ philosophy, that a lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth. But the truth is that we are leaving public finances in very good shape.
According to Morawiecki, “the European Commission and the financial markets see this reality: anyone who is even remotely interested knows that it is impossible to hide even a zloty of debt.”
Anyone with an ounce of goodwill knows that in any case, I repeat: regardless of the type of fund or budget category, in the end everything ends up in one bag under the name: national debt. This is why the financial markets were and are calm. Because they saw our budgetary policy, financial policy. And the opposition was furious that we were doing well and tried to see the thorn in our side, forgetting the beam in its own eye
– he emphasized.
As he said, the whole point of this whole thing is that “the opposition wants to withdraw from its election promises and justify this withdrawal by juggling numbers.”
It will soon become clear that the tax-free allowance cannot be increased, that voluntary ZUS cannot be introduced, that ‘grandmother’s insurance’ cannot be introduced, that there will not be a zero percent loan, etc. Why? Because it was election fraud. But society will monitor it and hold it accountable. Hence the panic in their eyes and hence the use of Jerzy Urban’s methods
– rounded.
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Source: wPolityce