Blue and White vote-buying bill worth 600 billion yuan to save the election? The Kuomintang blasts: The political Yuan is prepared not to countersign all the way

Chen Yixin, chairman of the Kuomintang Cultural Communication Committee. (File photo)

The Executive Yuan announced on the 6th that it will not enact the "Elderly Welfare Act" that exempts the elderly from health insurance premiums. Party and government officials said that based on the current controversial policies, it is estimated that the government's expenditure will increase by 600 billion yuan in one year alone, accounting for 15% of next year's total budget. The government caucuses responded cautiously and were not threatened by Blue and White's votes. In this regard, Chen Yixin, chairman of the KMT's Cultural Communication Committee, criticized the DPP legislators collectively for not voting, and the Executive Yuan was prepared not to countersign all the way! Does it mean that the DPP’s nod is required for laws passed in the third reading by Congress to count? Is Zhuo Rongtai the executive president, or the emperor with legal veto power?

"Welfare policies cannot be reduced to election bargaining, and the national finance cannot become a cash machine for political manipulation." Party and government officials emphasized that if the blue and white version is promoted, the annual budget for exempting health insurance premiums for the elderly will increase by about 40 billion yuan, and the allowance for elderly farmers will need to be increased again. An increase of about 32 billion yuan. If the national pension is increased to 8,000 yuan, it will increase by 50 billion yuan. Coupled with the blue camp's universal cash payment of 20,000 yuan, the government's expenditure will increase by 600 billion yuan in one year alone, accounting for 15% of next year's total budget.

Chen Yixin pointed out that the Executive Yuan proposed a subsidy of 10,000 yuan for old farmers, and a legislator from the Democratic Progressive Party also proposed a subsidy of 12,000 yuan. If the Kuomintang pushed for 15,000 yuan, would it be like throwing money to buy votes? Could it be that the DPP's extra efforts are called taking care of farmers, and the Kuomintang's extra efforts are called unconstitutional?

Chen Yixin questioned that an anonymous person claimed that four policies would increase 600 billion yuan a year, but confused the one-time universal cash payment with the annual welfare expenditures that continue to be paid. The Executive Yuan should not use huge figures to scare the people.

Chen Yixin even asked, why did the DPP legislators not vote in the face of the welfare collective of 530,000 old farmers? Don’t you even have the courage to vote against it? President Lai Ching-te and Toh Wing-tai should publicly explain whether they have decided not to countersign at all? The DPP can't let the Executive Yuan block the law without countersigning it if it doesn't dare to vote.