Chairman of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) National Leadership Council Senator Claudiu Tarziu told a debate on Thursday on the increase in rates and taxes that the „poverty” ordinance, also called „austerity,” is „the last blow that the government can strike to the economy to bury it for good”, write Agerpres.

„We are making efforts to block such a document. We are an opposition party, so we cannot do it alone, we can only do it if we have a common position with those targeted, with the real small and bigger taxpayers, those who make up year after year the national budget and who make the operation of the state possible. (…) The correct philosophy of a responsible government would be the one that shifts the fiscal burden from the shoulders of small taxpayers to those of large taxpayers, because they are also the big beneficiaries,” Tarziu told the debate organised by AUR at Parliament Palace called „National economy in danger – the increase in taxes is ruining Romanian entrepreneurs,” an event attended by business people and leaders of employers’ associations and professional organisations. At the end of the debate, he presented some of its conclusions. „(…) From what they want to do under this ordinance of austerity or poverty, the following results: that economic patriotism, in Mr Ciolacu’s view, aims to abolish Romanian entrepreneurs; that economic patriotism, in the view of Mr Ciolacu and his cabinet, aims to put a stop to research in Romania; that Mr Ciolacu’s economic patriotism aims to abolish culture; last but not least, Mr Ciolacu’s economic patriotism wants to put Romania’s NGO community at a disadvantage, the NGOs that are not financed from external sources versus those that are funded from external sources,” said Tarziu.