NCRI Staff
NCRI - Iranian regime’s latest budget is roughly $350 billion for the financial year 2018/2019. It is currently most well known for a highly unpopular draft that sparked nationwide anti-regime protests in Iran at the turn of the year.
Let’s look at it now.
How is it funded?
• oil: a natural resource that belongs to the Iranian people and is being stolen by the mullahs, which amounted to $50 billion in the last fiscal year
• taxes: President Hassan Rouhani will raise taxes by 11% or $55 billion, which means they’ll be taking more in taxes than in oil
• increasing bonds: Rouhani wants to increase its bonds to $45 billion, but this is only appropriate under a popular government, not one where the people are openly calling for your death
• eliminating cash handouts or subsidies: this will hurt at least 30 million people living in poverty, in order to raise another $5 billion
A note on taxes
It is important to note that unlike democratic countries, taxes in Iran are not used to fix infrastructure, provide education, or train doctors. Instead, the mullahs are stealing money from the people that they cannot afford and spending it on foreign wars.
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