Former Osaka Governor and lawyer Toru Hashimoto (56) appeared on Fuji Television’s “Sunday News THE PRIME” (7:30 PM, Sunday). He spoke about free education without income restrictions. The program showed the surprising amount of money that Governor Yoshimura made from “Myakmyak” goods. The program invited Yuichiro Tamaki, representative of the Democratic Party of Japan, and Etsuro Honda, former counselor of the Cabinet Secretariat and visiting professor at Kyoto University Graduate School, as guests to discuss the Takaichi administration’s measures against high prices and alternative sources of revenue following the abolition of the provisional gasoline tax rate . During the discussion, Hashimoto questioned the free education without income limit, saying, “What is the effect of giving free education to those with high income or high assets? The Diet members are now running with the idea of giving free education to families that already have enough money to pay for it, because they think it will win the support of their constituents. Tamaki continued. Tamaki responded, “They want to focus on children and offer free education, but I think it is a problem from the viewpoint of income redistribution unless we consider that households with high incomes will have to pay a separate fee for their children. In child-rearing policy, we should focus on children rather than parents’ income to provide free child care. On the other hand, I think it is necessary to separately discuss how the income tax should be progressively raised for households with high incomes,” he said.
