The political battle over public pension reforms may have subsided, but it's only a temporary lull.
The major participants played a numbers game Wednesday of hiking premiums and cutting benefits to make ends meet for the time being, but they avoided the fundamental problems threatening the ailing system's future.
And the consumption tax, which some circles see as a key factor in future funding of the system, got only the usual vague reference when the dust settled.
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