Lawmakers should receive cash payouts just like others: LDP members

Wednesday 07th January, 06:23 AM JST

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14 Comments

some14some at 06:51 AM JST - 7th January

Hosoda is right. It is better than receiving "petty" donations from tainted businesses.
Tatanka at 08:21 AM JST - 7th January

Lawmakers pay taxes, so they are entitled to the money, too. Like the US tax rebates, Japan should only give the cash payouts to people who filed a 2007 tax return. Its absolutely ridiculous to give money to senile-bag-of-bones lying in nursing homes...
samsarks at 10:41 AM JST - 7th January

yes,they are entitled to it.so long as they pay taxes and the democratic party should just shut up cos i dont think they have the guts to rule japan
GW at 11:05 AM JST - 7th January

filing tax rtns or paying taxes wudnt apply to kids or spouses so are you saying they shudt rec any yen?
timorborder at 11:06 AM JST - 7th January

Oink, Oink. Good to the politicians with their snouts firmly in the trough.
mareo2 at 11:15 AM JST - 7th January

Holy God... there si no sense of shame in the LDP.
majimeaussie at 01:10 PM JST - 7th January

This shows the problem with the LDP (and politicians in general).

Basically I agree that they should be allowed to receive it, provided there isn't an income cap as originally proposed. However, how petty to argue over so small an amount (compared to their salaries) when it will obviously cause image and other problems to them (individually, the LDP and the government in general) by highlighting their sense of self entitlement.
ptolemy at 03:56 PM JST - 7th January

Oh my, greedy politicians, I never would have thought.
buggerlugs at 05:44 PM JST - 7th January

Shouldn't these guys actually set an example, take the money, then donate it to the needy??
HeathenCabin at 06:54 PM JST - 7th January

LPD=Idiots(only idiots can work in Jgov). Thats probably a law too!
Triumvere at 07:29 PM JST - 7th January

Haven't the LDP's pols already received enough "cash payouts"? Now excuse me, I have to register my house as a campaign support group HQ...
ca1ic0cat at 09:55 PM JST - 7th January

I agree that they should get their cash above the board but I thought that they all got plenty under the table? Maybe I'm just to cynical any more.
buddha4brains at 03:17 AM JST - 8th January

Not much of a stimulus. Where will it get spent? Or will it be saved?

If the gov't wanted to stimulate the economy then they should focus on bigger ticket items like homes, cars, computers where the manufacturing sector gets a boost, jobs saved, and the economy trudges along.

As it is most people with nickel and dime their 12,000 yen on small items (food, entertainment, clothes). This package seems designed for political rather than economic benefit.
TPOJ at 07:58 AM JST - 8th January

Yes, they should.

Of course, the whole idea is moronic to begin with, but why exclude them?