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hasing in a guaranteed minimum income scheme and providing universal health care, ensuring that the effort required from everyone is pro
portionate to their income, targeting savings in areas which do not directly affect the wallets of ordinary citizens, such as reduced defence expenditure, or by addressing inefficiencies in many areas of public spending, challenging vested interests, such as phasing out favourable tax treatments for ship-owners or farmers, or a myriad of exemptions, e.g. for some islands on VAT rates, or of unjustifi
...[+++]ed subsidies, supporting the role of the social partners and the modernisation of the collective bargaining system, fighting corruption, tax evasion and undeclared work, supporting a more transparent and efficient public administration, including through moving towards a more independent tax administration, the reorganisation of ministries and the introduction of a better link between salaries and job responsibilities.
