Chapter 65 Feel free to change the essence of the discussion

As long as you can analyze the essence of the problem clearly, you can come up with some solutions.Thus, if the government had analyzed it coherently from the outset, the issue of pensions would not have evolved into a policy debate.Think about it carefully, is it really necessary to have a red-faced debate with the opposition party on this issue? In short, the essence of this issue is not a struggle between the Democratic Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, nor can it be discussed only in terms of pros and cons.Simply put, this is just a matter of institutional reform.Therefore, when solving this problem, the interests of all citizens must be considered. It is best to brainstorm and then make a decision.

If we want to talk about the issues that can really cause policy debates, the aforementioned issues such as the National General Number and the National Advisory Database are worthy of discussion. I am afraid that what should really be the focus of attention is whether the national number can be made into a combination of letters and numbers. Whether citizens should have such an ID or not, we must first discuss this issue, and if it is to be implemented, we must find a way to get the support of the citizens.Of course, it would be better to add an identity verification function to this ID system, and then all administrative services can be based on this.

I am afraid that most of the people who oppose this national ID system are people who want to evade taxes, such as people who have multiple postal savings accounts, or people who launder money through illegal activities.In this world, light and darkness coexist, and the National ID is to turn the dark side into the bright side. In fact, under the instigation of the Asahi Shimbun at that time, the people who opposed the national registration number system were mainly the presidents of small and medium-sized enterprises and those who held blue tax returns.In addition, there are violent groups engaged in illegal trading that also hate the National General Numbering System.If they are carefully investigated one by one, then "Argot" will be in danger of falling apart.

But at that time, the government only emotionally rejected the work of national management, and the nature of the topic discussion changed.In the end, the government trumpeted that "conscription will be revived" and used this method to deceive the people.So now whether it is the postal privatization issue or the pension issue, the government has used the previous method to secretly replace the essence of the problem. If we can see through this point, we can distinguish between those who claim to have household registration in Japan and those who advocate digitizing household registration.In other words, it will be clear at a glance who is the old school and who is the real reformer.

Now, Japan as a whole has no ambitions at all. Although everyone is preaching reform all day long, it is not known whether they really want to achieve the goal of a small government.We should actively reduce waste and improve the quality of administrative services, but as soon as such opinions are issued, they will immediately be opposed by many people. Even so, it is impossible to maintain Japan's current administrative service system for a long time, so a more aboveboard system should be formulated on this premise.