The next budget will pass even before the Tishrei holidays, Avigdor Lieberman promised, while a cover without a promise, which he has been scattering recently.
The next budget is the last thing Lieberman has to worry about at the moment.
The economic plan he is now trying to convey is more important and burning, and Lieberman is far from achieving a majority for it as a distance from heaven and earth.
However, those who thought of discriminating against the government had better think again.
The current government is paying its way to success from day one.
In order to obtain a majority, it is likely that Lieberman, Bennett and Lapid will be willing to transfer many salaries to their political partners, up to the level of the lone rebel MK, in order to secure a majority in the Knesset.
However, their struggle until they succeed in doing so only in the beginning.
As in the original budget approval, so this time too, Bennett and Lapid have little choice but to follow the whims of Avigdor Lieberman, who already a few months ago, in fact upon taking office, completely surrendered to finance officials, who became real homeowners over the country's economic conduct.
The new plan, just like the budget, consists of a pile of things, the connection between which and real economic aid to the citizens of Israel kneeling under the burden of undeclared corona closures, or to the war on the cost of living, is incidental to non-existent.
Just as the taxation of drinking and disposable utensils is intended to reduce consumption out of sincere concern for public health and the environment, and not for upholstering the treasury with additional cash.
Closed businesses (archive), Photo: Yossi Zeliger
One does not have to understand too much in economics to know that the economic plan is at most a hollow and meaningless publicity plan.
It is enough to see what price is required from government ministers or party leaders to fund it in order to understand the emptiness that lies behind it.
And the price is zero.
No minister is required to cut back on his office.
No party has been asked to waive the copy amounts it has received in the coalition agreements.
And an economic plan, presented as dramatic, that actually costs almost no money, is neither really a plan nor really economic.
Maximum reality show that should at most garner ratings, and fails at that as well.
The political test now is not only of the prime minister, the alternate prime minister and the finance minister, but also of the parties that present themselves as “social” and that have now expressed opposition to the plan.
The big question is whether they will persist in their refusal to draw a line and approve this nonsense, or will they surrender, as usual to the place of government to this day, and prefer the continuation of comfortable sitting in the coalition at the expense of faithfully representing their voters.
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