Felicity (Saadet) Party Konya Deputy Abdulkadir Karaduman, held a press conference on the minimum wage at Grand National Assembly (TBMM).
Karaduman started to explain by emphasizing the consumption frenzy on the other side and continued as follows: "With an expenditure of 100 billion dollars, hunger in the world exceeds 600 billion dollars only in football. The wealth of the 62 richest people on the planet is the total wealth of the poorest 3.7 billion. The main purpose of our work is to eliminate this distortions and injustice especially in our country and all over the world."
Karaduman underlined that it is the most fundamental right to receive the reward of human labor. In its report published in November, Türk-İş stated that the hunger limit of a family of four was 2 thousand 102.83 TL and the poverty limit was 6 thousand 849.62 TL. Manufacturing labor and capital composition consists of thinking that a strong Turkey is producing a healthy generation and then give you deserve to labor will bring," he said.
"THE MINIMUM WAGE TAX SHOULD BE REDUCED"
Karaduman underlined that the employer cost of a minimum wage worker in today's conditions is 3 thousand TL and continued as follows: "The amount obtained by the worker is 2,020,90 TL. The difference of 985,22 TL is tax and social security deductions. In today's conditions, workers find it difficult to earn a living, and especially small enterprises have difficulty in employing workers. It is possible to achieve the necessary increase in the minimum wage by reducing the taxes on the minimum wage and reducing the social security premiums from the employer."
DEVELOPMENT LEVEL IS PROPERLY PROVIDED BY PURCHASING POWER
"The income gap between rich and poor divide has deepened," said Karaduman and continued; "While 1 percent of the population had 34 percent of the total wealth in 2002, when we look at 2019, we see that 1 percent of the population has 60 percent of the total wealth. The occurrence of this situation; The neoliberal policies of the AK Party government, the tax-dependent development model and the consumption-based economic understanding have led to. On the other hand, it is a fact that the level of development of the countries is directly proportional to the purchasing power of its citizens."
Karaduman concluded the press statement as follows: "Wage increases, which are common to minimum wage earners, which constitute the majority of the employees, are tax liabilities of the holdings and banks. The amount of interest paid $ 2 million per hour in Turkey. In other words, the amount corresponding to the minimum wage total of 5,755 per hour is paid as interest.
"Moreover, 2 million 136 thousand people work for a wage below the minimum wage. It must calculate the minimum wage over the poverty line, not the hunger line," he added.