Chapter 74: Reversing and Reversing Market Conditions

Lu Liang felt that it was highly probable that it would pass.

This term's ruler, Anshan, had been appointed as the premier three times. Last year, he had dissolved the House of Representatives, held elections two years early, and secured re-election, achieving his third term in office.

Last month, risking universal condemnation, he had ignored the protests of a million citizens and forcefully pushed through the new defense law, making it possible for Japan to exercise collective self-defense rights.

He had torn up the enemy state clauses and Article 9 of the Constitution, which prohibited Japan, as a defeated nation in World War II, from maintaining any military forces or other armed troops, and from producing any war-related materials.

Anshan indeed was a man descended from heaven, and Lu Liang had thus concluded that raising the consumption tax was an inevitable choice.

"What are you thinking about?"