【異次元の思考力】「机上の空論」をへし折る天才的ロジック。現場を知り尽くした男が放つ反論不可能な解決策【参政党】【神谷宗幣】【高市早苗】

On July 19, 2026, Sohei Kamiya, leader of the Sanseito party, gave a street speech in Niigata Prefecture. Under the theme, "What would I do if I were Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi?", he discussed concrete measures to address Japan's challenges, from reducing the number of parliamentary seats and the concept of a secondary capital to reducing consumption tax, energy policy, and agricultural policy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ How to Use the Two-Thirds Majority in the House of Representatives – Electoral System Reform Before Reducing the Number of Seats ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Representative Kamiya, acknowledging the current situation where the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party hold two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives, began by stating, "If I were Prime Minister, I would use that power to do things that haven't been done before." He argued that if the number of seats is to be reduced, the first step should be to reform the electoral system, such as a multi-member constituency system, which allows the voices of diverse parties to be heard in national politics, rather than the current system of proportional representation in single-member districts, which has many wasted votes (votes cast for unsuccessful candidates that do not result in seats). Furthermore, the proposal suggests increasing the number of publicly funded secretaries for Diet members (※secretaries whose employment is permitted at public expense; currently limited to 3) to 4-5, creating a system to support Diet members' policy-making and local activities. A comparison is also presented, showing that U.S. federal lawmakers have a budget that allows them to employ 15-20 staff members per person. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ The "Serious Secondary Capital" Concept - A Counter-Proposal to the Ishin Party's Secondary Capital Bill ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Criticizing the Ishin Party's Secondary Capital Bill as merely enriching large cities, Representative Kamiya proposes a "serious secondary capital." Taking into account Tokyo's location on the Pacific coast of eastern Japan, the proposal suggests establishing a secondary capital on the Sea of ​​Japan side or in the Seto Inland Sea region of western Japan, and holding the autumn Diet session (extraordinary Diet session) in western Japan. He argues that rebuilding the Shinkansen and road networks around a secondary capital would bring public funds to local areas, including regions like San'in that are suffering from population decline. He also mentions the fact that Japan does not have a law designating a capital city, meaning there is no legally designated capital, and suggests Fukuoka, Okayama, Kyoto, and Nara as potential locations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Uniform Consumption Tax Reduction and Abolition of Invoice System – Lowering the National Burden Rate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He emphasizes that the top priority is the reduction of the national burden rate (the ratio of taxes and social insurance contributions to income), which the Sanseito party has consistently advocated. He argues for a uniform reduction of the consumption tax, not just a tax cut on food, and calls for the abolition of the invoice system (a system of qualified invoices necessary for input tax credits on consumption tax, which also imposes an administrative burden on small businesses). He proposes a funding strategy combining a reduction in consumption tax to 5% and a review of export tax refunds (a system where exporting companies receive a refund equivalent to the consumption tax). Drawing on his experience as a former supermarket manager, he also shares his on-the-ground perspective, stating that "stores don't set prices based on the consumption tax." In response to criticism of preferential treatment for the wealthy, he proposes reviving the excise tax (a system taxing high-priced and luxury goods) that existed before the introduction of the consumption tax to balance the situation. He also argues that exporting companies profiting from the weak yen should be taxed fairly, and advocates a shift in thinking, viewing taxes not merely as a means of securing revenue, but as a valve for adjusting the economy (the idea that taxes should be increased when the economy overheats and reduced when it cools down to adjust the money supply in the market). He suggests that "Ministry of Finance officials should work in a supermarket for about two months," calling for economic policies based on on-the-ground experience rather than theoretical calculations. He ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Pensions, Postal Savings, and Norinchukin Bank – Investing the People's Money Domestically ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The presentation touches upon the approximately 300 trillion yen in pension reserves managed by GPIF (Government Pension Investment Fund, an independent administrative agency that manages public pension reserves), arguing that now, with rising prices making life difficult, it is time to consider increasing benefit amounts and utilizing the funds for do...