Victor Ponta’s solutions for economic rebound

The new PSD (Social-Democratic Party) leader Victor Ponta
believes the introduction of the 16% flat profit tax by the liberal
government was one of the worst economic mistakes because it
widened the gap between rich and poor.
Ponta says he will advocate dropping the flat tax, announcing
his party would also promote progressive taxation for high
pensions, as well.
This is the first a time a new PSD leader has ever spoken
about his economic vision, which turns out to be much more leftist
than what the Social-Democrats and their leader Mircea Geoana were
advocating in 2009, which was an electoral a year.
Ponta said the main step to curb unemployment was to keep
public sector employees in their jobs instead of firing them
en-masse as Premier Emil Boc (Democrat-Liberal Party) wants to
do.
Besides keeping the public sector jobs and dropping the flat
tax, PSD’s leader also talked about progressive taxation of
pensions (for instance 70% tax on those above 200 million RON Ponta
said), emphasising that making such incomes uniform depending on
contributions was “non-sense”.