Middle-class callers praised the new budget – and the poorest condemned it – when the financial secretary spoke with Hongkongers on a Thursday morning radio show.
John Tsang Chun-wah, who delivered his budget in the legislature on Wednesday, heard from one caller who was crying, saying she and other poor people had one more been ignored.
Many middle-class callers, meanwhile, thanked Tsang for the wide range of tax relief measures, which they said would ease their burden.
Some of them urged the government to roll out more measures to help the poor.
Tsang said they would be helped through recurrent government spending on such areas as education.
Vocabulary
- budget 預算
- burden 重擔
- condemn 責難, 責備
- financial secretary 財政司司長
- ignore 不顧, 不理會, 忽視
- legislature 立法會
- middle-class 中產階級
- praise 讚揚, 稱讚
- recurrent 定期重複的; 週期性的
- relief 緩和, 減輕; 解除; 救濟; 補助
- urge 催促; 力勸; 激勵; 慫恿
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