Right answer, wrong reason

The media is full of speculation (again) that Kan plans to call an election. After all, he talked up his energy-policy plans and said he expects energy policy to be a prime battlefield in the next election. So that must mean … But when they ask him, or spokesman Edano, the response is non-committal. He might. He might not. Of course it’s non-committal. Calling an election is the PM’s nuclear option. He never takes it off the table or commits to its use. And this is true no matter who the PM is.

But in fact, he is honor-bound to call an election soon. Because the LDP has been hounding him about “how are you going to pay for this welfare state we created?” and all and Kan has responded by having people study this and come up with some recommendations on financing the welfare provisions without bankrupting the state. The obvious answer, that was being widely suggested even as the question was asked: raise the consumption tax. And the recommendation is to double it in stages to 10% by 2015. (Yes, that has been fuzzied a bit, but not significantly.)

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So with the pledge to raise the consumption tax and the pledge to hold an election before that, Kan has to call an election reasonably soon. Otherwise, everybody will jump on him for not going to the polls and getting some kind of approval. The only questions are how much he can get done before that and how soon the disaster-struck region can be election-ready. This has nothing to do with energy policy. It has nothing to do with scaring politicians into cooperating with his program. It is not a new thing at all. People have been noisily intent on not taking their eyes off the ball, but they’re watching the wrong ball.

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