Our government has a surplus but we have an entirely different set of problems.
They said everyone would be better off for the past three years and the economy kept improving. So vendors upped their prices but those tax cuts were delayed and some other taxes were actually increased.
The numbers are in and...- Prices of food and other necessities have gone up (lower tax rate for food(6%) was abolished, VAT is now 21% for everything)
- Energy/Water costs have gone up
- We now have the most expensive gas in all of Europe (~1.82 Euro for a Liter of Petrol (~$7.50 a gallon), mixed with Ethanol so engines will brake down faster too)
- Housing shortage turned into a housing crisis (yes, we've ran out of affordable housing because we need to house refugees somewhere but our government also had the policy to artificially inflate real-estate capital by not building any new affordable housing, oops)
- Unattainable climate goals (max speed is going down to 100 km/h next month (just 60 mph LMAO) and we can't solve the housing crisis because we're unable to build any affordable housing because of the climate regulations)
So now the two main ruling parties are trying to deflect with a pissing contest of new migration policies and a ban on fireworks