BRATISLAVA, January 21, (WEBNOVINY)- The opposition parliamentary SNS wants to push through 16-percent flat-rate tax, hike pensions, prepare the country for the eurozone’s fall, support the broad-gauge railway project believed to open 10,000 jobs and tax dividends of private individuals in case it will be part of the ruling coalition after March 10 elections. The flat tax is to improve the standard of living and bring an additional 300 euros to each inhabitant. “SNS will develop every effort to increase the lowest pensions by at least 100 euros” pledges SNS leader Jan Slota after the SNS leadership’s sitting on Saturday. His deputy Rafael Rafaj rushed however to specify that the money would go to people who worked the required number of years and not to people who live in settlements, had no job and even will think that also they will be given those 100 euros.
Slota said that most members of the leadership are very pessimistic about the impacts of what is happening in the south part of the eurozone on other states of the euro club and believes that its end can be expected within two years. “And therefore we will do our best to prepare for switching back to our national currency and maybe also for the end of the eurozone,” said Slota. He thinks that Slovakia’s falling into debt due to subsidizing the European bailout fund is reprehensible and underscored that his party will never agree with further support to the rescue mechanism.
The party wants to hike the budgetary revenues via improved VAT collection that would bring EUR 343 million more to state coffers. Ten-percent taxation of dividends of private individuals is believed to pour further EUR 350 million into the state budget, thinks Rafaj.
In the event of its election success the SNS would not say “no” to cooperation with any Slovak political party. “We are willing to discuss with everyone except for Hungarian political parties that have nothing in common with a positive relation to Slovak statehood and Slovak sovereignty,“ concluded Slota who believes that his party will post a two-digit election result.
SITA