Mr Orbán wrote that Tisza and the team of left-wing experts that had lined up behind them were slowly endorsing all the proposals that we knew from Brussels reports: progressive tax increases, doing away with the reduction of household energy bills, increased corporation tax and the latest “craze,” the taxation of pensions.
“In their view, that will make things better for the country. At some point in time. Degression, progression, aggression. At the same time, we take the view that what makes Hungarian economic policy good or bad is not that it’s applauded in Brussels,” Mr Orbán wrote.
He pointed out that Hungarian economic policy was good if it served the welfare of the Hungarian people. “If we don’t overtax workers and businesses; if we keep energy prices under control. And it’s good if we preserve the value of pensions in a predictable fashion and increase them as much as we can afford to,” the Prime Minister stressed in his post.
