RESTORATION: Unlike Ma Ying-jeou’s single solution to the financial crisis, the coupons are just one of several programs to revive the economy, the DPP said

Taipei Times
Date:Jun 05, 2020
By: Dennis Xie / Staff writer, with CNA

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday defended its stimulus coupon program amid accusations that President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was applying double standards, having criticized former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) consumer voucher program.

DPP spokeswoman Yen Juo-fang (顏若芳) listed five reasons why the Tsai administration’s coupons are better than the Ma administration’s consumer vouchers.

The Ma administration in 2009 issued consumer vouchers of NT$3,600 (US$120.3) per person in a bid to stimulate the economy in the wake of the global financial crisis, while Tsai’s policy would allow people to purchase NT$3,000 coupons for NT$1,000.

Tsai, then-the DPP chairperson, had written on Facebook about the downsides of Ma’s voucher program. The post has sparked discussions among netizens, with some accusing her of double standards.    [FULL  STORY]