3-12-2019 You can't fix Israel's economy without ending the occupation - Dr. Shlomo Swirski +972

https://972mag.com/you-cant-fix-israels-economy-without-ending-the-occupation/140526/

 

Israel's massive income inequality can't be solved without addressing one of the country's biggest expenses: decades of military rule over millions of Palestinians… Israel's self-imposed austerity policy was adopted partly due to the heavy cost of maintaining the occupation… Addressing imbalanced development requires heavy government involvement. Heavy government involvement requires larger budgets. Larger budgets mean either a political settlement with the Palestinians, which will allow lower military budgets, or increased tax revenues, which can only come from the hen that lays the golden hi-tech eggs, i.e., the upper income deciles. Those are the ones who have benefited from Netanyahu's low tax regime, and at the same time appear now to favor the new Blue and White party. For both Netanyahu and the three generals, raising taxes is left-wing.

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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