February 08, 2010, 10:12 CET
Democratic Forum PM candidate Bokros presents program
What Hungary needs is a "clever and transparent" state, Lajos Bokros, prime minister candidate of the small conservative Democratic Forum, said in his programme speech on Sunday.
"A strong society, strong democracy, strong economy, and strong businesses are needed," he said.
Bokros said that the current practice of making a relatively "small group of people pay high taxes" promoted tax evasion and suggested that more people should be paying lower amounts.
Without significant and sustainable growth in the long run the gap with Europe's more developed economies cannot be closed, Bokros warned his audience. He added that Hungary's businesses wanted less red tape, more predictable regulations, lower taxes and better trained and cheaper labour.
Bokros called job creation crucial, but said that it was not a government responsibility. The government should provide conditions under which entrepreneurs are willing to set up new businesses creating new jobs, he said.
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Points for being spot on, Mr. Bokros; though will anybody listen? The latest gaffe (re. tax engine wattage) has at least shown that the HU has run out of "very rich" to go after, and is now willing to take swipes at nearly anybody who at one time saved up money to purchase something. How long until anybody whose name starts with a letter between "F" and "SZ" will have to pay an extra 3% tax on how many underpants they own?
With a little luck, this freak MDF/SZDSZ coalition will get less than 5% and we can forget about “Bokros csomag” and all that garbage they were planning to promote with the criminal Mesterhazy’s money.
Mark is obviously afraid that if the MDF gets into the Parliament they will have a lot of influence
Maybe they will have some more influence than the 5-8% they have a chance to get, basically as a possibility for Fidesz to create a anti-Jobbik 'working coalition' (= not a formal coalition) and securing 2/3rd majority for a better Constitution, which will be different from the Jobbik proposal
That would be MDF's best contribution in the next Parliament
Maybe Fidesz, a bit to wash their hands, let MDF take care of the Finance Ministry, but that is just me speculating
Fidesz strong side has never been the Finance thingie and letting 'some one else do it' would suit Orban's proposal to let Bokros do the 'Technocrat Government' Viktor was asking for in the Autumn of 2006
For the latter to happen, MDF does not need to get into the Parliament, and the ideas of MDF/Bokros will not disappear just because they do not make it into the next Parliament
Even if not enough people listen before the election, they will have to listen 6-12 months after the election
The economical shit *will* hit the fan, how fast is just a question on how much of the Jobbik-inspired ideas has a real foot-hold inside the Fidesz MPs in the Next Parliament