Chapter 59 Advisory boards programmed with low IQs from the start

Here, please consider the issue of the road corporation with me again. I think there should have been a discussion. The Road Public Corporation should be abolished now, and we should have a new understanding of expressways. Expressways belong to the state, so there is no need to set up a special agency to collect road fees.No matter how much it is discussed, this point is beyond doubt. In today's developed countries, such as Germany, almost all highways are free of charge.As long as you go to these European countries, anyone can see this reality, so you will have a question: "Why can't Japan do this?"

The last thing I want to say is that roads, as social infrastructure, were originally built with tax money, so they should not be charged.Therefore, unless it is an extremely special occasion, for example, a certain bridge should implement a toll, the toll is reasonable in this case.Especially under the principle that beneficiaries bear the majority and users bear the small part, it is also possible to implement the charging system. If the construction costs are high, adding some budget to the accounts according to general accounting principles will do the trick.In short, there is no need to collect money from other places beyond the general accounting principles as stipulated in the road-specific financial resources system.Even the original charges should be gradually reduced.

However, in the Road Corporation Privatization Promotion Committee, the "Reform Committee" composed of Inose Naoki and other members will definitely not agree to discuss this issue, because they were based on the "privatization" proposed by Prime Minister Koizumi. "As a premise to discuss this issue. Of course, not only on the issue of road corporations, the government has called many scholars and experts into the advisory committee, but even so, it is impossible to seriously discuss this issue. Prime Minister Koizumi also issued instructions to the Privatization Promotion Committee, asking them to consider how to privatize the road corporation.

This is the first time that the issue of privatization of road corporations has been mentioned. Judging from the discussion on "whether privatization should be implemented", Koizumi has not consulted the relevant departments in advance.Moreover, the members of the committee probably did not go to the prime minister to inquire about the feasibility of the matter.In other words, the conclusion has been fixed from the very beginning, and the deliberation and other procedures are just for display. Therefore, it can be said that whether the convened committee members are real scholars and experts is not important. From the very beginning, the committee was set at a minimum IQ level.

Even so, assuming that the committee members are really experts and scholars, they will still conduct screening, and finally put forward opinions that are truly for the sake of the people. In this way, their suggestions to the Prime Minister must be for the sake of the people. "The waste of road construction should be reduced, and a way should be found to reduce the budget for road construction other than highways, so that highways can be built without charging taxpayers." Such suggestions are good. "The accumulated deficit has reached 28 trillion yen, what should we do?"

"The way to eliminate these deficits is to tax 10,000 yen per car per year on active vehicles, so that this deficit can be eliminated within 10 years." When asked the above question, I suggested it, but it was largely ignored.Only a handful of Democrats said the proposal should be adopted. Whether it's roads or railroads, whether it's the fiscal deficit caused by the issuance of national debt or the omission of pension registration, why does this country always do this: avoid the deficit problem first, and no one proposes to say that it needs to be solved in the first place? What about the deficit problem?

The consequence of this is that these deficit burdens have been left to future generations who have not yet been born.How bad the situation is!Why doesn't the current generation think about it? Regarding the issue of privatization of road corporations, according to the Advisory Committee, if privatization is carried out, the deficit of 28 trillion yen will become a big problem, so "the deficit can be filled with future profits", but that It was 50 years later.The "insight" of scholars and experts turned out to be at this level, and we have to admit that the Japanese really don't think about it.