Zaidabadi: Instead of increasing taxes, the government should lift the sanctions.
In response to the government’s spokesperson’s remarks, Zaidabadi stated that tax collection during periods of comprehensive economic prosperity is a practice of many governments around the world. However, increasing taxes in conditions of 40% inflation and deep recession in many economic sectors of the country will lead private sector businesses, especially small and minor enterprises, to bankruptcy and ruin, and will plunge many families into dire straits, making them extremely angry and rebellious.
Instead of increasing taxes on people under pressure, the government should, in addition to lifting sanctions and creating an environment for domestic and foreign investment, reform the rent-seeking economic system and particularly cut the budget of all these redundant and obstructive institutions that, under grandiose cultural and educational titles, consume a significant portion of the country’s public budget.
The sustenance of this volume of idle, futile, and even obstructive and bothersome institutions from the people’s pockets is forbidden and clearly an act of exploitation, as a simple survey would show that the overwhelming majority of people are completely dissatisfied with the allocation of public resources to these institutions.
