Sales tax alone won’t stop Japan from drowning in debt - opinion

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Sales tax alone won’t stop Japan from drowning in debt - opinion

Japan is in over its head with ¥960 trillion of debt, and the country is pinning all its hopes on a national sales tax to dig it out. Yet it should consider inflationary measures to affect genuine change.

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