If the authorities are raising property taxes by ten times, they need to raise salaries by five times. This is what leader of Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan said during a meeting with students today.

“Take a look at other countries. No country is raising property taxes. How can people pay their property taxes when they don’t have high salaries? Today, there are 1,700,000 people who have loans and are barely making ends meet,” he said.

In response to a student’s concern about the increase of tuition fees this year, Tsarukyan got upset and said the Prosperous Armenia faction of the National Assembly will raise the issue in parliament in September. “People haven’t been working for six months. How can this be? Who made that decision? Does that person know that people are barely making ends meet?”