The one who loses and the one who wins: the economic program of the Treasury perpetuates the classes in the workplace

What the Treasury forgot to tell last night is that the plan to lower the cost of living does not help people whose wages are low and do not pay income tax anyway.

In this way, the differences in the classes in the workplaces, where the employees earn at different wage levels, deepen more and more.

"Bottom line the program will help high-income earners"

Between Ashkenazi

10/02/2022

Thursday, 10 February 2022, 16:44 Updated: 19:35

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In the video: A press conference by the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Economy, in which they announce measures to reduce the cost of living (Photo: GPO)

In the economic plan presented last night at the Treasury, Bennett, Lieberman and Barbibai promised to reduce taxes for working families, but while the plan benefits some sections of the public - other sections of the nation will not be affected at all.

In addition, this step will only sharpen the differences between employees in the same workplace.

"It was unpleasant when I walked into the office this morning and saw Chen very happy," Ran, a lawyer from the central area, said of the meeting with a secretary in his office. "I had to explain to her that she earns the minimum wage and is therefore also entitled to 2.75 credit points. 2.25 because she is a resident of Israel, and another half point because she is a woman - in fact no income tax is deducted from her and therefore she can not enjoy the credit points," he explained.

Ran and Chen's story clearly illustrates what Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said last night - the program is for working families - but it also illustrates what they swallowed and is that the program is for the middle class.

"Bottom line, this program will help high-income earners," Ran explained. Exemption from paying income tax The plan does not speak to him at all. "

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Perpetuate the classes in the workplace.

Lieberman and Bennett present the economic plan, last night (Photo: Bini Ashkenazi)

The program will also sharpen the differences between employees who have a gap of experience in the same workplace.

"From what I saw in the media, as someone who has children from the age of 6-12, the program is best with me because my salary is not a minimum," said Shaul, an Egged driver from the center.

"But I'm telling you that there's going to be a gap here again between first generation drivers - workers who were hired before the workers who came after them - and second generation drivers, because second generation drivers, at least some of them, earn low so the program will not help them because they do not come To the tax brackets. "

"It's not that I'm so rich, that your readers will not think so," Saul stressed, "here, my wife is a teacher in the Ministry of Education and she does not reach the tax bracket to pay income tax, so that way we do not enjoy it as a family."

When asked how the price increase will affect the bus passengers, and whether they will stop using public transport because of it, her answer was quite surprising: "Nowadays the charge for bus travel is made through all bus doors. What will happen now is that people will stop paying They simply will not attack the multi-line. "

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