Taking part in a post-budget debate in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Covid-19 is a
always warned you of these challenges and about terrorism as well. The past year, President Zardari and Akhtar Mengal had highlighted the locust issue in the Parliament.
“We had an example of Germany. We had examples like New Zealand and Australia before us. Italy used to ask others to learn from their experience. Poor countries are also combating, there is not a single death in Vietnam, and it is because they faced the pandemic with unity and harmony. They saved their lives and economy. We were being given Sweden as an example, but today, Sweden’s leaders are apologizing because the most deaths and economic losses have occurred there.
“Benazir Income Support Programme’s four months worth of money was distributed at a time. The rich were given relief. The poor people were not provided with any sort of relief. There should have been a 40% increase in BISP. You have to transfer cash to our poor and middle class people as well. This budget is a traditional PTIMF budget, our finance minister agrees. He says that they are more worried for IMF than our people. They have appeased the IMF by crushing the poor.
He said the government should have imposed taxes on the rich and given relief to people. “The poor people suffer the most under the burden of indirect taxes. You should have imposed a ‘Covid-19 Super Tax’. A wealth tax should have been imposed and those with assets worth more than Rs20 million should have been asked to pay 1%. This is an anti-poor and anti-labourer budget. You should have increased the salaries and the pensions.
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