2024-01-18 02:23:56
Lee Jun-seok, chairman of the New Reform Party’s platform policy committee, and Heo Eun-ah, chairman of the party founding preparation committee, are speaking following a press conference on corporate and transportation-related platform policies at the National Assembly Communication Hall in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 18th. /Newsis
Lee Jun-seok, chairman of the New Reform Party’s platform and policy committee, announced a pledge to abolish the current free subway use benefit for seniors over 65 years old. Instead, it is a pledge to provide a 10,000 won prepaid transportation card per month and provide additional discounts.
Chairman Lee Jun-seok held a press conference at the National Assembly Communication Center on the 18th and said, “We will abolish the free ride system for the elderly on urban railways, and provide prepaid transportation cards worth 120,000 won per year, equivalent to 10,000 won per month, to seniors over 65 years old.” “We will provide it in a form that can be used by all, including urban railways, buses, and taxis,” he said.
Chairman Lee explained that if this amount is used up, they will be able to use buses and subways at a discount rate of regarding 40% that is currently applied to teenagers, and that the estimated annual cost is regarding 1.2 trillion won as of this year.
He said, “This system, which was modeled following the free-riding system for older people in the communist Soviet Union 44 years ago, has now reached the end of its lifespan.” He continued, “The cost of free riding on the urban railway by the elderly is KRW 815.9 billion per year as of 2022,” and “Most of these costs currently remain as debt of urban railway operating organizations and are being passed on to future generations.” He also said that the system also has fairness issues with senior citizens in areas without urban railways.
Meanwhile, Heo Eun-ah, chairman of the same party’s founding preparation committee who also held a press conference that day, said, “Businessmen are not the president’s subordinates,” and announced that the state would not allow companies to make demands in the form of quasi-taxes or involuntary contributions in addition to law compliance and tax payment obligations.
Chairman Heo Eun-ah mentioned the recent scene where corporate heads ate tteokbokki and other snacks together with President Yoon Seok-yeol in Busan, and said, “If necessary, we will propose a ‘special law once morest tteokbokki’ to guarantee businessmen’s ‘right to veto tteokbokki’ in the 22nd National Assembly.” did.
In addition, he announced that he would push for the so-called ‘Emperor Business Trip Prevention Act’, which would transparently disclose the president’s overseas business trip schedule and budget.
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