The draft budget for general account of the fiscal 2023 makes a pair with the second-round supplementary budget of the fiscal 2022. The former focuses primarily on the security in terms of military domain, while the latter confirms the same in the economic framework. There lies the new National Security Strategy on which the Kishida government made the decision in its Cabinet meeting.
STERN OPPOSITION TO MILITARY BUILD-UP
Massive tax increases continue
The draft budget for the general account of the fiscal 2023 accounts 114 trillion and 381.2 billion yen, which is a surge by 6.3% of that of the fiscal 2022 of the time of initial compilation. The total sum is the largest in the history, with growth lasting for eleven years consecutively.
In terms of the revenue from taxes, it is estimated as 69 trillion and 440 billion yen, which is by an increase of 6.4% from the figure of the last fiscal. The consumption tax is the biggest item to bring takings, which counts 23 trillion and 384 billion yen, which is a hike by 1 trillion 811 billion yen compared with the number of fiscal 2022, which means that taxing on large majority of the population will be enhanced.
Furthermore, a new round of issue of government bonds is estimated as 35 trillion and 623 billion yen, which records the 15th consecutive ranking over the level of 30 trillion yen. For this reason, the total amount of the government bonds reaches 206 trillion yen, including the refunding bonds. If the interest rate goes up by 1%, the necessary expenditure for government bonds (an expense to repay debts) surges up to 3.7 trillion yen. The public finance is losing sustainability.
We, the Socialist Party of Japan (NSP), strongly demands the government of Japan to make a decisive change in the financial structure as well as correction of unequal taxation, including enhancement of the progressive taxation mechanism.
Military expansion – Attack on military facilities
The military expenditure (in a narrower terms) is accounted as 6.8 trillion yen, the history-largest, which is by an increase of approximately 25% of the relevant figure of the 2022 fiscal of the initial compilation stage. The total sum reaches 10.2 trillion yen, if the ‘fund for strengthening defense capabilities’ to spend after the 2024 fiscal is incorporated. This is an ultra-huge military budget.
The pillar of the budget is found in the possession of capabilities to attack military facilities of the adversary. An amount of 122.7 billion yen is allocated as expenses to develop and massively produce the 12-type ground-to-ship guided-missiles (the more advanced capabilities) in the long-range missile program. Another 105.4 billion yen is put in to develop next-generation fighters equipped with devices to search military facilities of the rivals, which is a hidden program, though. A sum of 315.5 billion yen is appropriated to jointly develop next-generation fighters in cooperation with the United Kingdom and Italy, including the figure already accounted in the budget.
The NSP adamantly opposes the big military build-up plan of the government, and will take actions to impede approval of the draft budget and enactment of correlated laws.
Semi-conductors – a core of the economic security
The Kishida government, stressing the economic security policy, has appropriated about 7 trillion yen in the second-round supplementary budget for the fiscal 2022, whose total amount is 29 trillion yen. That is the economic security means ‘a war without exerting to military capacity’.
It is semi-conductors that are regarded as the most important item in the economic security policy, which has become ‘rice of the military strength’. The administration has allocated approximately 1.3 trillion yen in compiling the relevant budgets, including 450 billion yen for securing domestic manufacturing sites of the sophisticated semi-conductors amid the harsh rivalry between the United States and China.
The government designated in the end of last year the 11 areas, including semi-conductors, as the ‘specifically important materials’ of the economic security policy. It appropriated 1 trillion and 394.2 billion yen for R&D of these key technologies in the fiscal 2023 budget.
The most imperative policy – People’s life
The administration prefers national security to people’s life. We, the NSP, again emphasize that security of people’s life is the first priority.
大衆増税が一段と
23年度政府一般会計予算案は、22年度当初比６・３％増の１１４兆３８１２億円で、11年連続で過去最大規模に。
歳入では、税収を22年度当初比６・４％増の69兆４４００億円と見込む。消費税が最大税収項目で、23兆３８４０億円に。22年度当初比で１兆８１１０億円をも増加し、大衆増税がまたも進む。
さらに新規国債発行が35兆６２３０億円で、15年連続の30兆円台。このため借換債など国債発行総額は約２０６兆円に達し、金利１％上昇で国債費（借金返済の歳出）は３・７兆円も上振れする。政府財政は持続可能性を失いつつある。
私たちは、超過累進課税強化など、不公平税制の是正と財政構造の抜本的転換を強く求める。
軍拡─敵基地攻撃
軍事費（狭義）には22年度当初比約25％増の６・８兆円を計上し、過去最大の金額に。24年度以降分に充てる「防衛力強化資金」を含めて10・２兆円の大軍拡予算である。
大軍拡の要が敵基地攻撃能力の保有。長距離射程のミサイルとして、12式地対艦誘導弾（能力向上型）の開発・量産費１２２７億円などを並べた。隠された敵基地攻撃装備の次世代戦闘機開発にも１０５４億円計上。日英伊共同開発が決まった次世代戦闘機への財政投入は、既計上分を含めて３１５５億円に上る。
私たちは大軍拡に強く反対し、予算と関連法案の成立阻止へ行動していく。
経済安保─半導体
岸田政権は「経済安全保障」を掲げ、29兆円の22年度第２次補正予算のうち約７兆円をこの経済安保に振り向けた。経済安保は今や、「軍事力を使わない戦争」としてある。
重要物資の中心は「軍事力のコメ」になった半導体。米中半導体戦争が激化する中、先端半導体の国内生産拠点確保に４５００億円など約１兆３千億円の関連予算を確保した。
政府は昨年末、経済安保の「特定重要物資」に半導体など11分野を指定。23年度予算案にも重要先端技術の研究開発等に１兆３９４２億円を組んだ。
庶民の生活が第一
今や国家の安全保障が最優先され、庶民の生活はないがしろに。私たちは改めて、「人びとの生活保障こそ第一」だと強く主張する。
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No. 1290 Budget Plan for Fiscal 2023
The draft budget for general account of the fiscal 2023 makes a pair with the second-round supplementary budget of the fiscal 2022. The former focuses primarily on the security in terms of military domain, while the latter confirms the same in the economic framework. There lies the new National Security Strategy on which the Kishida government made the decision in its Cabinet meeting.
STERN OPPOSITION TO MILITARY BUILD-UP
Massive tax increases continue
The draft budget for the general account of the fiscal 2023 accounts 114 trillion and 381.2 billion yen, which is a surge by 6.3% of that of the fiscal 2022 of the time of initial compilation. The total sum is the largest in the history, with growth lasting for eleven years consecutively.
In terms of the revenue from taxes, it is estimated as 69 trillion and 440 billion yen, which is by an increase of 6.4% from the figure of the last fiscal. The consumption tax is the biggest item to bring takings, which counts 23 trillion and 384 billion yen, which is a hike by 1 trillion 811 billion yen compared with the number of fiscal 2022, which means that taxing on large majority of the population will be enhanced.
Furthermore, a new round of issue of government bonds is estimated as 35 trillion and 623 billion yen, which records the 15th consecutive ranking over the level of 30 trillion yen. For this reason, the total amount of the government bonds reaches 206 trillion yen, including the refunding bonds. If the interest rate goes up by 1%, the necessary expenditure for government bonds (an expense to repay debts) surges up to 3.7 trillion yen. The public finance is losing sustainability.
We, the Socialist Party of Japan (NSP), strongly demands the government of Japan to make a decisive change in the financial structure as well as correction of unequal taxation, including enhancement of the progressive taxation mechanism.
Military expansion – Attack on military facilities
The military expenditure (in a narrower terms) is accounted as 6.8 trillion yen, the history-largest, which is by an increase of approximately 25% of the relevant figure of the 2022 fiscal of the initial compilation stage. The total sum reaches 10.2 trillion yen, if the ‘fund for strengthening defense capabilities’ to spend after the 2024 fiscal is incorporated. This is an ultra-huge military budget.
The pillar of the budget is found in the possession of capabilities to attack military facilities of the adversary. An amount of 122.7 billion yen is allocated as expenses to develop and massively produce the 12-type ground-to-ship guided-missiles (the more advanced capabilities) in the long-range missile program. Another 105.4 billion yen is put in to develop next-generation fighters equipped with devices to search military facilities of the rivals, which is a hidden program, though. A sum of 315.5 billion yen is appropriated to jointly develop next-generation fighters in cooperation with the United Kingdom and Italy, including the figure already accounted in the budget.
The NSP adamantly opposes the big military build-up plan of the government, and will take actions to impede approval of the draft budget and enactment of correlated laws.
Semi-conductors – a core of the economic security
The Kishida government, stressing the economic security policy, has appropriated about 7 trillion yen in the second-round supplementary budget for the fiscal 2022, whose total amount is 29 trillion yen. That is the economic security means ‘a war without exerting to military capacity’.
It is semi-conductors that are regarded as the most important item in the economic security policy, which has become ‘rice of the military strength’. The administration has allocated approximately 1.3 trillion yen in compiling the relevant budgets, including 450 billion yen for securing domestic manufacturing sites of the sophisticated semi-conductors amid the harsh rivalry between the United States and China.
The government designated in the end of last year the 11 areas, including semi-conductors, as the ‘specifically important materials’ of the economic security policy. It appropriated 1 trillion and 394.2 billion yen for R&D of these key technologies in the fiscal 2023 budget.
The most imperative policy – People’s life
The administration prefers national security to people’s life. We, the NSP, again emphasize that security of people’s life is the first priority.
January 11, 2023