NNA - "The citizen is not a scapegoat and it is not from their pockets that we want to cover the budget deficit.  For this, we are working to activate the state's public facilities through which we can earn money," tweeted Minister of Public Works and Transportation, Ali Hamiyeh, this morning.

"The optimal investment of public state property provides the treasury with abundant money," the minister went on, adding that taxes must be levied on the able, not on the exhausted.

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