Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

The two sat together and listened to Kanazawa Kohei's talk.

When Li Xinghe walked in, Kanazawa Kohei had already finished the conversation.

"Ms. Teng will secretly join our investigation team." Dongchuan Xuemi moved her butt slightly to let Li Xinghe sit down.

Then a woman in a suit with a cinched waist came in, and Kanazawa Kohei left quickly.

She was neat and tidy, with her long hair slightly tied up and falling on her chest, giving her a unique temperament that was as clean and spotless as a flower.

Without further ado, she came in and said to the three of them:

"I'm Ryuzaki Hibari, secretary to the Chief Prosecutor of the National Police Agency. I've called your team here to complete this investigation mission, which is to investigate the Minister of Economic Affairs and Chairperson of the Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council, Sanae Takaichi. Please confirm her relationship with the Americans."

The police are going to investigate Sanae Takaichi?

This is not surprising. Every country conducts basic research on candidates for prime minister. The police have a lot of dirty laundry on politicians.

But Sanae Takaichi is not an amateur, she has been investigated a long time ago.

The emergency activation of the plan means that the police have noticed new circumstances.

After simply arranging the tasks, Ryuzaki Hibara disappeared.

"Candidate for Prime Minister..."

"How do you investigate? Wire-tap?"

"Eavesdropping is too stupid and will be discovered."

The sudden conflict between Higashikawa Yukimi and Fuji Rie made Li Xinghe realize that the new life of this group might not be so bright.

Li Xinghe interrupted the two people's somewhat inexplicable hostility and made his own decision for the group:

"Why so many troublesome methods? Follow me."

Does it take any special means to coax an old woman like Sanae Takaichi?

He first called the Chinese dealer and said, "Brother Yang, please arrange for a few Gucci and LV women's bags, original ones with real signatures, to be delivered to me to the coffee shop at the intersection of Tokyo Court South Road."

Then he took Fuji Rie and Xue Min to an open-air cafe near the court, north of the Metropolitan Police Department, to drink coffee.

More than an hour later, a special car stopped by the roadside and Li Xinghe went to pick up the goods.

"12 yen." The younger brother pointed with his fingers.

Li Xinghe understood, took out the money and delivered the goods.

"Openly buying and selling fake goods in front of me?" Fuji Rie's hands had begun to tremble slightly as she caught the little criminal.

If this wasn't her own brother, she would have arrested him immediately and brought justice to him.

At this time, the reassuring Yukimi-chan comforted her righteous sister: "If we buy the real thing, it will cost millions of yen. Our annual salary will be wasted. We are only responsible for going in to find out the news, and this is just a prop."

Li Xinghe also raised questions:

"This bag is made by the original manufacturer, and the label is also genuine. Both are authentic, and together they only cost 2 yen. If you go to a luxury store, the same item will cost you tens or even millions. How is that true?"

Obviously, buying an original bag with a real label is dozens of times cheaper than buying the real thing.

......

Li Xinghe brought his sister and fake girlfriend directly, carrying several luxury bags, and walked into Takaichi Sanae's campaign support meeting, smashing the luxury bags on the table.

"Hello, we heard that the Kaohsiung City Councillor is planning to run for election. We are very impressed and came here to attend the support meeting."

He spoke wildly on the spot, and made even wilder and more extravagant moves, which dazzled Sanae Takaichi's followers.

Giving luxury bags as gifts always works for Japanese and Korean women. Yoon Seok-yeol's wife Kim Gun-hee was caught because of this.

A campaign support group is a Japanese-style special organization that consists of long-term and stable core voters.

In essence, it is more like a retainer group, but there are slight differences.

The only thing that surprised Li Xinghe was that he actually saw Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei here.

She turned her head, and the gentle beauty suddenly showed a gentle but creepy smile.

As soon as she saw the array of resentful ghosts behind Li Xinghe, she immediately started to kill them with one sword:

"Wow, Master Chiyo is also interested in politics? Or is he interested in me?"

Dongchuan Xueshi was unusually calm when facing Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei. She nodded slightly: "All of them, Lu Yuchi sister."

Instead, Fuji Rie felt more and more uneasy.

She always remembered what Chiyo Hinahime said: 'I originally wanted to arrange for them to get married as siblings', and she began to exclude other people unconsciously.

The secretaries were even more delighted, thinking they had attracted a wealthy man.

For a big spender like Li Xinghe, who is also a financial sponsor who knows the congressman, the secretaries immediately invited him to a policy briefing to discuss Takaichi Sanae's policy agenda.

The three of them went in and sat down, and the dozens of people in the venue greeted each other.

The secretaries began lecturing the core electoral supporters:

"Our post-election policy is as follows... First we will cut taxes for the people."

The main thing is to reduce the consumption tax from 20% to 18%.

This is the biggest policy of this election, 'tax cuts for the benefit of the people'.

But the secretaries also talked more about post-election policy.

In other words, how to make up for the lost taxes when the finances are already in deficit?

Fumio Kishida has already increased the personal consumption tax to 20% and above, and has also increased many other taxes and fees. If the consumption tax is increased again, the residents will really explode.

Therefore, Kaohsiung City Sanae's policy is to increase everyone's citizen tax when there is no more room for consumption tax to be increased.

The city resident tax, also known as the metropolitan resident tax, citizen tax, and resident tax, is a tax that you must pay to a certain area when you register your household registration. Therefore, this tax is also figuratively called a "head tax."

The tax rates vary from place to place, but are generally 5% or more.

That is, if a person's annual income is 200 million yen, he or she will have to pay 10 yen to the city where he or she lives every year.

And this 5% is just the base price. If the income is relatively high, for example, if the annual income exceeds 600 million yen, then a 10% resident tax may be imposed, which is 60 yen, almost a tithe. It even has an excess progressive tax rate, and people with higher annual incomes may be charged more than 20%.

What's even more outrageous is that this head tax is not just one layer, but two layers, consisting of prefectural taxes and district and town taxes. Add to that ancillary taxes such as forest environmental taxes, and the tax amount can often approach or even exceed 10%.

It looks outrageous, and it is actually outrageous.

If this kind of tax appeared in China, the public would probably explode. But the Japanese have been helplessly enduring this head tax for many years.

The actual pre-tax income of Japanese people is often less than one-third due to taxes and insurance.

Reviving the poll tax in the 21st century is real and is actually happening in Japan.

The reason for moving the resident tax is that the resident tax is generally collected by local governments in Japan. In principle, it is collected by the residents themselves, so it is not a national tax. However, the Japanese parliament has a unified tax amount, so when the time comes, it can be negotiated privately with the prefectures.

The second way to raise taxes is to increase it from the special income tax for reconstruction.

This tax was established after the 2011 earthquake in Japan, and 2.1% of personal income tax was taken out for national reconstruction. Naturally, this temporary tax was collected for 17 years, but there was no sign of Japan's reconstruction. Instead, after losing 30 years, in the 40th year, it rushed all the way back to the lost 50 years.

They believe that this ratio can be increased by +1 to 3%.

"This is called the New Renaissance Tax," said the secretary.

In short, under the new tax policy prepared by Sanae Takaichi's campaign team, they believe that by reducing taxes on consumer goods by 2%, and then increasing the resident tax by 2% and the special reconstruction tax by 1%, they will be able to provide welfare to residents and still collect enough taxes.

That is, minus 2% and plus 3%.

2%>3% can be regarded as the high market inequality of the new era.

This way of playing made Li Xinghe couldn't help laughing.

Kind of funny.

The author says:

Author's note: Thank you for your support. The gameplay in this chapter is actually very basic and simple, and the Japanese government has been playing this way for many years.

Chapter 85 Personal Secretary Li Xinghe

The policy briefing was over, and the long and boring conversation made Fuji Rie and Higashikawa Yukimi fall into a deep sleep like poor students in class.

Miss Lu Yuchi's fragrant breeze blew on her face, she leaned over and whispered:

"How about going out and talking?"

Li Xinghe came out and complained about Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei:

"Isn't this Trump economics? If there is less tax here, then collect more from other taxes. Use tomorrow's toilet paper to clean today's dirty butt. Does Sanae Takaichi really want to stay in power for a long time?"

If this old woman just wanted to collect more brand-name bags, then Li Xinghe would have to report to the CIA and change the way of supporting her.

"You think it's inappropriate?"

Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei turned around in surprise, her beautiful black dress drawing a perfect arc, like a dancer on the stage.

Seeing that there was no one around, Li Xinghe spoke frankly:

"Why don't they dare to increase corporate tax, business tax and asset tax? Is it because they don't dare? Or are they afraid of offending the big media and financial groups? In the final analysis, Japan is now in a mode of unlimited money printing. The central bank has fully opened the printing press to purchase corporate stocks and bonds, thereby releasing unlimited liquidity to the society. What's wrong with collecting a little more from the masters? Just for show. For example, you, your family also..."

So, Lu Yuchi stepped directly on Li Xinghe's feet with her high heels, making this talkative brother shut up completely.

Of course, she understood what "unlimited liquidity" meant, but she felt that Li Xinghe was very weird.

Shikamichi Hua Yingmei leaned over and pressed on his shoulders, and warned him in a seductive voice with a soft but firm voice:

"Please keep in mind your disdain for her policies and don't speak nonsense. We are from a peasant family, not a millionaire."

With his toes held by the woman's high heels, Li Xinghe coughed twice and said seriously:

"I'll be honest with you. To paraphrase Humphrey in Yes, Prime Minister, although we have solved the problem of excessively high tax rates, taxes are still too high. The public is not stupid. What will they do when they find that the 2% resident tax and the 1% special reconstruction tax take away far more money than the 2% reduction in consumption tax? Don't forget how Kishida Fumio's government fell."

The lesson Li Xinghe talked about happened three years ago.

Fumio Kishida and Yoon Seok-yeol fell in the same year. Both Japanese and South Korean leaders had a combined approval rating of less than 50%. One lost in the election and the Liberal Democratic Party was almost defeated by the opposition party; the other was replaced by his opponent, and the drama of the former prime minister going to jail began on the spot.

By levying consumption tax on the people, they can save money by refraining from spending money.

However, the resident tax and reconstruction tax are paid by all taxpayers, which will take another heavy toll on the wallets of Japan's middle-class families.

So it is not 2%>3% at all, but 3% is much greater than 2%.

"She doesn't think the people are all stupid pigs, does she?"

Li Xinghe began to suspect that Takaichi Sanae was indeed mentally ill. If she could get away with it in the first year by choosing candidates like this, what would happen next?

Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei suddenly changed her face:

"This is the plan I wrote for her. The resident tax will be adjusted starting next year, and the reconstruction tax will be adjusted the same way. So in fact, these two tax increase strategies can be completely abandoned. It depends on the situation."

Simply put, it is a trick of changing one's mind frequently.

If you can get elected this year, you should reduce taxes first.

If he can maintain his three-year term next year, he will quickly increase taxes to fill the fiscal hole.

Li Xinghe suddenly understood. He looked at this vicious woman:

"She has a problem with her brain, and your trap is also very poisonous. It doesn't depend on the situation, but on your importance and the position you hold in the cabinet, right? If she can't satisfy you, don't give her subsequent solutions and increase taxes roughly. If she satisfies you, give her more solutions."

Far-right politicians and their base are stupid.

It wasn't just Li Xinghe who saw through this. Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei also understood it, and understood it better than Li Xinghe.

She joined secretly, but in fact she was forcing Sanae Takaichi to give her more power.

Lu Yuchi finally got a little angry, and she reminded Li Xinghe:

"You speak in a rude and direct manner, which is totally unlike a Japanese. You need to change that."

This very precise reminder made Li Xinghe restrain himself a little more.

So he started to be sarcastic in Japanese style:

"Japan has the largest proportion of luxury stores in the world, and the highest amount of luxury goods consumption outside the United States. Japanese people are consumerists. In fact, I think we should increase the consumption tax to 25% in one go, and make people who like to buy luxury goods suffer."

"I will think about it."

Miss Shikamura indicated that the conversation was over.

When Li Xinghe was about to go back and wake up his companions and leave, Lu Yuchi, who had returned, called out to him:

"I have heard something about you. You may be in some trouble recently. Believe me, you will come back to ask me for help in a few days. When you ask me for help, remember to bow and say 'Please help me, sister Lu Yuchi'. Let me tell you in advance, my price is very simple. You come to be my secretary."