Ishiba against cutting Japan’s consumption tax on food as skyrocketing rice prices double

Japanese prime minister (PM) Shigeru Ishiba thinks consumption tax on food should not be lowered, against the wishes of political dissenters, in spite of rice prices spiking tremendously over the last year. The Japanese government has been intervening more and more in farming, releasing stockpiled rice and legally demanding farmers behave according to their directives. […] source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/ishiba-against-cutting-japan-consumption-tax/