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share of alsó the prémium on voluntary supplementary retirement inaurance.

The syBtem of taxing enterpriae profité would offer the enterprieee tax incentivee to assume a larger share of the retirement insurance prémiumé.- The enterprieee offering retirement ineurance would be ahle to inveet in bueineee venturee. The tax eyetem would offer favorable tax treatment fór inveetmente in healtb care, education and other aocial aervicee.

4.4 Economic Security fór the Unemployed

Leadere of the party and govemment have long maintained the atandpoint that there can be no unemployment in Hungary. They alsó rejected the demande in 1983-1985 fór a second economic reform, claiming that to allow markét forcee free play would force the ehedding of a proportion of the labor force, the deetruction of a "fundamental eocialiet achievement."

There wae no eecond reform, bút the economy'a irresietible decline ie leading to unemployment nonetheleee. Today even the government admite that layoffe are neceeeary. Indeed, obeying ite old proven reflexee, the government has even launched a campaign to reduce the work force. Hobody is able to teli which enterprieee are turning workers out intő the etreet6 becauee it is unprofitable to employ them, and which are the onee that are 6hedding workers merely to ecore brovnie pointe with the political leaderehip.

Bút the pover structure refusee even in thie eituation to face the coneequencee of the turnaround in social welfare policy. Whereas earlier it wae blaming the pro-reform economists fór wanting unemployment, it ie now ehifting the blame on the unemployed themselvee. According to the official propaganda, only the work-ehy, lazy, negligent and unreliable are being diemissed. Having a job ie virtue rewarded, getting fired ie puniehment fór crimes. At most there is lamentation that, in addition to the loafere, alsó decent workers are losing their jobe. Thie rhetoric abeolvee the State of ite 6ocial-welfare obligatione and attempte to play off the employed and the unemployed against each other.

Ve must categorically reject the propaganda that etygmatizee the unemployed.

Being unemployed ie nőt a crime; it ie a coneequence of eociety's inability to offer a pereon a job commensurate with hie abilitiee and circum6tancee. Coneequently, the State ie nőt doing the unemployed pereon a favor by caring fór him; it is fulfilling an obligation. Unemployment must be regarded a dieadvantaged eocial State with which certain righte are aesociated.

Resolution of the economic crieie alsó requires suitable provisione fór the unemployed. Unle66 the government provides conditions of economic security fór the unemployed, and opportunity to actively seek employment, it will nőt be able to tolerate rieing unemployment fór long. It will be forced to administratively intervene and halt the procesees of restructuring the economy, and to subeidize the workplace6 that are able to provide employment only as lose-making operations. Othervise the social catastrophe would bury the government.

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