Lawmaker suggests setting road tax (video)
The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) parliamentary faction lawmaker Hakob Hakobyan urges the NA colleagues not to consider the fact of taking out credit as something negative, “In its essence credit is a prospect of development. Otherwise, what shall we leave to our generations? When they say that we will leave a 5 billion debt to our generations. No, we shall leave Armenia with renovated roads, which we will use today and our generations- tomorrow,” he highlighted. The lawmaker thinks that after 5 years 5 billion dollars will have less value, “After 20 years, when our generations begin to pay 5 billion debt, it won’t be 5 billion, it will be approximately 3.8 billion.” Mr. Hakobyan also suggests setting road tax, and the money collected from it will be used for reconstruction and construction of roads. “There is road tax in many countries; those, who have cars, pay that tax. If we follow this principle, the tax will increase. In 1980s’ there were about 200.000 cars in the country, now there are about 700.000.” HHK lawmaker summed up his speech with these words, “Never be afraid of taking out credits, fight for using them in a right way! Otherwise we won’t leave anything to our generations.”
