Grigory Yavlinsky: Savings accounts will create the basis for economic growth
Candidate for presidency met with his campaign activists
Press Release, 05.03.2018
Today, Russian presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky met with volunteers who went to campaign for him to the Moscow region, and told them about his initiative to introduce savings accounts.
Grigory Yavlinsky said that residents would ask the activists about the main problems: pensions, salaries, jobs and gasification of housing. The answers to all these questions are in Grigory Yavlinsky’s programme “The Road to the Future”.
According to the politician, if many people vote for this programme, it will show that people are unhappy, they want changes, and “any Putin will have to listen to it.”
Grigory Yavlinsky said that he opposed the war, was against the arms race, standing for peace, so that Russia would be rich, and for the economy be strong.
To support the economy, Grigory Yavlinsky proposes to implement a system of savings accounts, that would allow young people at the age of 18 to accumulate 1 million roubles, as the state should annually transfer the deductions from the sale of oil and gas to all children from birth until reaching adulthood.
“A savings account will be opened for every person at the time of birth, and the state will transfer there money from the exports of natural resources to every Russian citizen under the age of 18. This amount is not very large, but by the age of 18 every young person will have 1 million roubles. He or she can start his/her own business, spend it on education, etc. From an economic point of view, this is the creation of domestic demand. Such savings accounts will create the basis for economic growth in the next five years. We will collect signatures for this initiative, so that it would work under any government,” Grigory Yavlinsky said.
The volunteers thanked the candidate for the presidency and immediately went to different towns and villages of the Moscow region to campaign.
Posted: March 5th, 2018 under Presidential elections 2018.