I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 244



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (244)

“Abolish the expansion of health insurance!!”

“Destroy it!! Destroy it!!”

This is Gyeongseong,

A group of people marched through the city, chanting slogans.

The identity of the person is the member of the Liberty Peace Party led by former Prime Minister Park Jeong-ui. He is now in his 70s and has served as Prime Minister three times. Why is he making such a fuss about enjoying wealth and honor?

Citizens passing by listened to the voice.

“Everyone!! The expansion of social insurance promoted by Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil is a charity policy that takes the income of the hard-working middle class and gives it to people who don’t pay taxes!! Don’t be fooled by such words!!”

The Korean government’s welfare policy began a long time ago.

As rapid urbanization occurred due to industrial development, families were scattered across the country, and poverty among the elderly who were left alone emerged as a social problem. Furthermore, as life expectancy increased, the situation became even more serious.

It is natural for the government to support the elderly who are too old to work.

This policy could be implemented because there was social consensus.

“Are my parents doing well?”

“I guess it really bothers me.”

Young people who came to the city to earn money worried about the parents they left behind in their hometown.

I sometimes send them money, but I wonder if they can live off of that, so I agreed to the government’s policy of supporting the elderly.

Who would be dissatisfied if the taxes I pay are used to support my parents?

But at some point, the scope of this gradually began to expand.

The pensions that soldiers and the elderly receive are all socially agreed upon, but aren’t welfare services that go beyond that scope just for politicians’ show?

Those who pay and those who receive benefits are different. How can politicians expand welfare policies with so much money?

The center of welfare policy is the middle class that pays taxes, but politicians are using that hard-earned money to expand welfare and sell votes.

Even in the United States, the retirement system has been abolished and even retirement pensions have to be revised because of this problem. Park Jeong-ui continued his speech to the nation with a heart full of blood.

“Everyone!! Why would I do something like this to enjoy the riches and honors?!! I’m 70 years old now and I want to rest now!! But because of those guys who treat politics like shit, I can’t rest even if I want to!!

The core of our country is the middle class, and this country is maintained thanks to your hard work and taxes!! But politicians are pouring out favoritism promises for lazy people who don’t pay taxes just to get their votes!!

Who will be responsible for this later?!! All of you who work hard and pay taxes will get a headache!!

I will say this with the risk of being cursed at!! In a democracy, not everyone should cast the same votes!! We need to differentiate according to the amount of tax paid to prevent such absurd promises from being made!!

We should divide the classes according to how much tax we pay!!

You who pay taxes are the owners of this country!! Those who only receive tax benefits should be second-class citizens!! Those congressmen who just receive a salary from the National Assembly are second-class citizens!! No!! They should be brought down to fourth-class!!

“Because they are not helpful to the country!!”

The citizens were shocked.

Is it even possible in a democratic society to divide people into classes based on how much they pay in taxes?

But the truth is that people are secretly dissatisfied, as Korea’s population has grown to 118 million, and the center of it is the 58 million middle class who pay taxes.

These people are the real owners of the country and are qualified to lead public opinion.

The remaining 60 million people are not even entitled to exercise sovereignty.

They ask the government for their contribution and talk about welfare policies, but the idea of ​​giving different voting rights according to the amount of tax paid was supported by the middle class.

“Shall we take our enemy as an example?!! He pays over 900 billion won in taxes every year!! It’s no secret that this accounts for 1/3 of the national budget!! Is that all?!! Our enemy!! He takes the lead in raising wages every year for hard-working workers!! Isn’t it because of the enemy’s contributions to society that many people have become middle class and are living well?!!

But when you go to the polls, you only cast one vote!! Does that make sense?!! How can those who sit quietly with our enemy and only receive tax benefits cast equal votes?!! That’s why in a democratic society, the poor benefit and politicians have no choice but to follow suit!!

Look what has become of America!! This is what society has become because they voted for the poor!! What did the hard-working middle class do wrong?!! Do we just have to work and pay taxes?!!”

“That’s right!! Opposition to social reform!!”

“Oppose expansion of medical benefits!!”

“Wow~!!!!”

Park Jeong-ui rose to stardom among the middle class thanks to this incident.

The middle class just pays taxes without receiving any benefits. Since when did this country become a country for the bottom 20%?

Public opinion arose that if you want to be treated well, you have to work and pay taxes, and that as fellow citizens of the Republic of Korea, you should not vote equally.

The surprised Kim Jong-pil cabinet arrested former Prime Minister Park Jeong-ui.

They accused him of sedition, deceiving society and undermining democracy.

However, Park Jeong-ui declared war, saying that he would try to win the election, and although his crimes have not been confirmed yet, he has completed registering as a candidate for the election.

“Let’s show the power of the middle class!!”

“We are the real owners of this country!!”

“Make the enemy who pays the most taxes the first-class citizen!! We are satisfied with second-class!!”

“The rest of them are all 3rd or 4th place!!”

An incident that literally turned Korea upside down,

If Park Chung-hee wins the election and becomes prime minister again, won’t he be overthrowing democracy?

Many people voted against it, but the middle class’s onslaught was too strong.

The general election results showed that the People’s Republican Party of Korea won 98 seats, Park Chung-hee’s Liberty Peace Party won 97 seats, and the remaining minor parties took 5 seats.

Is it possible to form a cabinet under a two-party system?

In this way, all welfare policies promoted by Kim Jong-pil came to a halt.

Park Chung-hee is threatening that there can be no cooperation without reducing welfare policies, and has gone so far as to push for a policy that assigns classes to citizens.

“Only those who pay taxes are qualified to participate in government!!”

“The only first-class citizen in Korea is the head of state, and he holds 1/4 of all voting rights in the Republic of Korea!! The remaining voting rights are exercised by the middle class who pay taxes!!”

The Liberty Peace Party’s policies that make your head spin,

The head of state has a quarter of the voting rights, which means he can appoint 50 members of parliament as he pleases.

An event that will shock the whole world: Is Korea now returning to a class society?

Foreign media also turned their cameras to the spectacular turn of Korean politics.

***

“Your Majesty, what should we do?”

“The election results are out, so what can I say? We’ll have to wait and see how they reach an agreement.”

This is the Daedeok County official residence.

I checked the reports coming from the Central Intelligence Agency every hour.

The current parliament has been adrift for two months and is unable to form a cabinet, making it impossible to run the country.

Kim Jong-pil tried to negotiate a reduction in some of the welfare policies he had been promoting, but his uncle would not back down from complete abolition.

Is now the time for a mediator to step in?

But if I step out here, parliamentary democracy will collapse again.

They had to come to an agreement somehow, but it was a match between strong and weak without any compromise, so in the end, they called the two to the Daedeok County official residence.

“The National Assembly has been adrift for two months. When will you take care of the people’s livelihood? It’s called adrift, but isn’t this the National Assembly on strike for two months? Aren’t you doing your job?”

“That’s… because we can’t seem to reach an agreement…”

Kim Jong-pil glanced sideways as he spoke.

He’s complaining that the National Assembly has stopped because of that guy.

My uncle was no different.

“Sir, the existing welfare policy is nothing more than a trick by the Korean People’s Party to cast votes among the bottom 20%. The middle class who diligently pay taxes…”

“No, I didn’t call you because I didn’t know that. If you keep going like this, we’ll have no choice but to dissolve the National Assembly. Do you want that?”

The head of state has the power to dissolve the National Assembly.

This is the right I was guaranteed when I left office as president, to coordinate opinions in preparation for such a situation, and if an agreement cannot be reached, to dissolve the National Assembly.

I’ve done it three times already, do I have to do it again?

So, a compromise was proposed.

“Both of you have a point. It is natural for the country to take care of people who are economically struggling. And it is natural for the middle class who pay taxes to be the owners of the country. But if you make a fuss about it, you look uncool. Do you think it is cool if I make a fuss about paying 900 billion won in taxes?”

Is the head of the household stupid enough to go out and work hard?

If you don’t have time to play with your children because you’re busy working, and if those days keep repeating, your children may start to feel awkward around you.

Why is the father treated like that at home when his only sin is working hard?

But, it would be uncool to say in front of your family, ‘I earned money so you can live like this!!’

Me too,

Everyone knows that I pay 900 billion won in taxes every year.

So did I make a fuss about it? I just kept paying it silently, so I became a cool enemy to the people. The middle class also kept paying taxes silently, and thanks to that, they became the core of supporting the country.

Working hard is a sense of responsibility, whether others notice it or not.

But isn’t it true that the middle class has been forced to make sacrifices over the years?

If we are to expand welfare policies, we also need benefits for the middle class. I have compromised the opinions of both sides.

“I agree with expanding welfare policies. But that requires the permission of the middle class. Aren’t they the ones who actually pay the money? You have to instill in the people the perception that the middle class is the head of this country. You can do publicity, or you can come up with policies for the middle class. Find a way. Do I have to give instructions on all these things?”

“Ah… no, your highness.”

“We will find a way.”

“Ugh, please, reduce my workload. I’m busy these days, too.”

I sent both of them back.

I don’t even know how the day goes by, as I’m the Commander-in-Chief of the AOPR and the Commander-in-Chief of the Korean People’s Army, so do I have to give orders for things like this one by one?

After repeatedly asking for a reduction in workload, both parties barely managed to reach an agreement.

If we expand welfare policies by 20%, but limit voting qualifications to ‘tax payers’, and abuse welfare policies without the consent of those people, what will happen to society?

The United States has proven that the policy of indiscriminate distribution is repeated, and the results are the same.

Of the 1,500 retirement plans, 800 have been abolished, and the rest may be abolished at any time.

Some may criticize the government for imposing a class system on citizens, but this is something that Korean society decided upon through mutual consultation. Is this dictatorship?

It is your freedom to think that way.

Korea took an independent path without paying attention to the opinions of surrounding countries.