He in the article recalled that when he proposed creating a citizens' society calling for the reform of the tax policy and opened a homepage in this regard, more than 1,000 people subscribed to it in a single day.

It cannot but be an astonishing response when compared with the number of the subscribers to the internet homepage opened by a major media institution several months ago which reached 400-500, the article said, adding: This makes it easy to guess how ardently the citizens wish to see the present wrong tax policy reformed.

Lee Myung Bak talked about "honest tax payment" and justice in tax affairs and the like these days, but who would believe the present regime as it plays a double game, it said, and continued:

Lee himself paid just 10,000-20,000 won for health insurance between 2000 and 2002 when he had property worth tens of billions of won and after he became the president it was brought to light that those who were informally designated as ministers by him were suspected of evading taxes and concealing the source of their incomes.

The article deplored that the tax burden of the high-income class sharply dropped while that of the low-income further increased after the present "government" enforced a policy for reducing the taxes for the rich which it described as a "proposal for reforming the tax system allegedly aimed at supporting the economy of the common people".

There can never be justice in tax affairs unless the above-said system is corrected, it concluded.