NEWS

15/09/2025

17:57

Kaczyński:

Regressive Taxes Are "The Way to Liquidate the Polish State," Warning of "Deep Crisis" Like in the US

Mateusz Nowak

- [The PiS program] is being attacked due to details that bothered people who believe that regressive taxes should exist in Poland, meaning the more one earns, the less tax one pays. Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, this does not exist anywhere in the world. When Korwin-Mikke was asked where his ideas are being implemented, he said it was in the Virgin Islands, - Jarosław Kaczyński said in Krakow.

- That's just a tiny, minuscule, less-than-a-per-mille fraction of what exists on Earth. Everywhere else it's different. The higher one's income, the higher percentage of that income one must pay. This is a principle that is both just and has enabled the construction of the welfare state, - he continued.

- Without this sharing, you must remember one thing: it will lead to a deep crisis, such as the one currently in the United States. This is a deep crisis of society, precisely because some have skyrocketed, while others don't even have enough to fix a tooth [...] despite working [...] their earnings have not increased at all since the 1970s, while the earnings and incomes of others have increased tens, and often even hundreds of times, - he continued.

- This cannot happen in Poland, because it is simply a plan to break apart Polish society; if someone in Moscow or Berlin were to devise a way to liquidate the Polish state, this would be the path, - he added.


Mateusz Nowak