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COMMUNISTS HAVE ADOPTED TWO BUDGETS – FOR THEMSELVES AND ALL THE REST, LIBERALS CLAIM
Chisinau. Moldova’s 2009 State Budget actually consists of two separate budgets – one for Communist mayors, Government, Parliament and presidential administration, and the other one – for all the rest citizens of Moldova, maintains Liberal Party Chairman Mihai Ghimpu.
He told a news conference in Infotag today that though the country leadership introduced some changes targeted at reducing Budget expenditures next year, “the 2009 Budget shows that the State does not wish to notice citizens’ problems, so it has shaped the Law on the 2009 State Budget primarily for those who agree to embark on an active political struggle against the opposition”.
“Regretfully, the Communists have not understood during the 8 years they have been in power that solution of health, education and other social problems depends on the economic policy the State wages, and economic policy, in its turn, depends on tax policy”, Ghimpu said.
In his words, the 2009 State Budget is remarkable for its financial imbalance, which may cause stagnation of the Moldovan national economy.
Also, he believes that the Communist government’s promise to restore free higher education in Moldova is just unrealistic because no means for this have been reserved in the State Budget.
LP member Mariana Ambros, Dr. Econ., said that in the 2009 Budget, the main tax burden has been placed on the shoulders of taxpayers who provide main income tax revenues.
“As a result, 62% revenues will come from taxpayers. As for Budget expenditures, we are saying that the balance of financing has been upset. Economy’s backbone sectors – agriculture, industry and construction – are going to receive 5.7% Budget revenues, while the police – 7.5%”, economist Ambros said.
She further held that 90% of all means allocated for all primarias (town and village governments) have been projected for ones headed by the Communists. These constitute 37% of all primarias in the country, so the rest 63% primarias are going to receive only 10% Budget means. One of such non-Communist primarias is that of Chisinau – the city that ensures 40% of all State Budget revenues, but in 2009 it can count only on 1% of the budget revenues, i.e. merely 1.87 million lei.
