Taichung added 8 times the budget to "gold gifts for consumption", and Congressman Zhang Fenyu ridiculed the "diamond-studded stage" to send her into the presidential palace.

(Photo by reporter Su Mengjuan)

[Reporter Su Mengjuan/Taichung Report] The Taichung Council held an interim meeting today. The city government proposed an additional budget of more than 17.2 billion for the first time in the 112-year total budget. Among them, an additional 350 million in Taichung's economic revitalization "Consumption Gold Gift" was questioned by the councilors. In disguise, the Taichung Shopping Festival added 8 times the budget. City Councilor Zhang Fenyu even ridiculed that it was a "diamond-studded stage" to pave the Ketagalan Avenue for Taichung Mayor Lu Xiuyan and send Lu Xiuyan to the presidential palace.

The Taichung City Council held an interim meeting, and the city government proposed the first supplementary budget for this year. Because the previous council had already decided that the Taichung Shopping Festival should not use supplementary budgets to allocate funds for related activities. However, in this supplementary budget, the Economic Development Bureau Proposed an additional 350 million in the "Taichung Economic Revitalization-Consumer Gold Gift Plan", which caused dissatisfaction among many congressmen.

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Xinke MP Zhang Fenyu even complained that the Economic Development Bureau’s Taichung Shopping Festival not only smuggled 350 million yuan from the additional budget. The listed 46 million, a nearly 2-month shopping festival will cost 406 million, which is equivalent to spending 6.76 million in one day. The large-scale coin-spending activities cannot revitalize the economy, and the stores have no sense.

Zhang Fenyu pointed out that the budget invested by the city government in the past four shopping festivals has soared from 19.8 million to 396 million. People participated in the registration invoice competition for the lucky draw. It can be seen why the amount of registered invoices will increase, and only Lu City Government is proud of it as a benefit of revitalizing the economy.

Zhang Fenyu pointed out that the amount of registered invoices is not equivalent to the consumption benefits induced by shopping festivals. According to the statistics of invoices from consumption channels of the Ministry of Finance, the statistics of invoices in Taichung City have been continuously reviewed for four years. In the months without shopping festivals, each month is much higher than During the shopping festival, 35.8 billion were registered. Taking September last year as an example, the total invoices of consumption channels were more than 84.3 billion yuan. In January this year, there were more than 77.6 billion. induce consumption.

Zhang Fenyu said that the Lu City Government added 350 million yuan to the budget in the name of "consumer gold gifts", which violated the principles of the budget law and disregarded the resolutions of the parliament. , to create Lu Xiuyan's reputation in the political arena, and to create tickets for her to walk on Ketagalan Avenue and go to the Presidential Palace.

She said that 350 million yuan is enough to open up a section of Defang Road in Dali District, which has been delayed for more than 50 years, in exchange for the traffic and fire safety of residents. If a re-elected MP agrees to pass the budget, it would be a face-off to his own resolution.