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Another tax increase. This time it is the health-insurance premium, a tax by another name. Only salaried workers are affected.
Only 10 days after the election in which they said they would not raise taxes, this is the 2nd increase. Salaried workers have been made fools of as well. This will continue for another 4 years. Salaried workers who voted for the Koizumi administration, which stated in a Diet response that campaign pledges need not be kept, should reflect on that.