Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te yesterday (6th) finalized the Taiwan government's general budget for next year, with annual revenue of 3,153.4 billion yuan (NT$, the same below) and annual expenditure of 3,132.5 billion yuan, a new high. Lai Ching-te also boasted of paying off more debts. Kuomintang Chairman Zhu Lilun criticized today that this is completely "internal propaganda" and not true.
The Kuomintang held its regular meeting today (7th) afternoon. In response to the release of the Taiwan authorities’ draft general budget for 2025, Zhu Lilun said with emotion that when Tsai Ing-wen took office as the leader of Taiwan eight years ago, the total budget that year was more than 1.9 trillion yuan. Now it has become The total cost was nearly 3.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 60%, not including various "special budgets" of 2.5 trillion yuan. He pointed out that the Democratic Progressive Party's "internal propaganda" claimed that the amount of debt repayment would reach a record high, but Article 12 of Taiwan's "Public Debt Law" stipulates that the Taiwan authorities and "municipalities" must pay 5 to 6% of the total tax revenue as debt. However, the DPP said that this was a new high in history, which is completely untrue.
Zhu Lilun further explained that the DPP often plays numbers games. Each year’s budget and “special budget” are like magic. Some are placed in the “special budget” and some are placed in the public budget. Secondly, the borrowing part is "making the Taiwan authorities fatter but thinning the counties and cities." As a result of the lack of amendments to the "Financial Planning Law", a lot of financial resources are placed in the Taiwan authorities and the counties and cities are borrowing money. What's more, in the past few years, the total debt of the Taiwan authorities has increased by approximately 1 trillion yuan. That is, as of May 20 this year, the total debt of the Taiwan authorities was 6.4 trillion yuan, compared with 5.4 trillion yuan eight years ago.
Zhu Lilun questioned that a lot of debts are hidden in hidden liabilities. The hidden liabilities are 13 trillion yuan, so the total debt is close to 20 trillion yuan. Financial experts say that due to the "special budget" in the past few years, Taiwan's financial situation will be quite bad before 2030, that is, in the next five to six years. Therefore, the DPP no longer needs to whitewash peace and engage in "big internal propaganda." Taiwan’s public opinion organization, the Kuomintang Caucus, strictly represents the people in supervising the budget review of the Taiwan authorities. It also asks the democratic representatives of the Democratic Progressive Party to stop being the party’s representatives and come together to supervise the budget of the Taiwan authorities and review the budget of the Taiwan authorities.
In addition, in response to yesterday's "Constitutional Court" debate on the reform of Taiwan's public opinion institutions, Chu Lilun said that "Justice" is an honor and a responsibility, and it is also the focus of public attention. "Justices" should not decide judgments based on the party they are nominated by or their personal ideologies. The whole world is watching. If the Democratic Progressive Party is used to lead, and specific forces are used to interfere with the final decision of the "Justice", and ultimately the reform of Taiwan's public opinion institutions is hindered by the selfishness of the party, the credibility of Taiwan's judiciary will be indelible. harm. I hope that all "justices" will use their conscience, wisdom, and consider their historical position and responsibility to make decisions that are most in line with public opinion. (Straits Herald reporter Lin Jingxian in Taiwan)
