英語検定ライティング準１級（第108回）

新紙幣「発行枚数が少ないのは良い話」

Someone can make money if something should change.
None of ordinary citizens could become profitable.

数日前に新しい紙幣が発行された。世に出回って一般市民がこの恩恵を得るのは時間がかかるとのこと。毎度のことだが各種詐欺被害がテレビで報道されている。
Several days ago, new three kinds of banknotes were issued, an online article says.
It would take a short time for ordinary citizens to gain its benefits because they would become prevalent slowly.
At the same time, various kinds of malicious fraud cases are reported on TV every day.

古い紙幣は使えなくなる。だから早めに電子マネーに変えておこう。そうすれば割り増しで貯蓄できる。いかにもありそうだ。だがそんなことはあり得ない。
A fraudster says that old banknotes would be invalid in the near future, so we should exchange them into digital money immediately, as a result, we could gain profits with a premium, which could be savings.
This explanation sounds true, but it is impossible.

今回の新しい紙幣は発行枚数が少ないとのこと。キャッシュレス化に向けた方針だ。現金のやり取りは極力ならない方が良いが、通信障害は絶対に避けられない。
The number of new banknotes is a little small because the government attempts to make our society a cashless one, an online article says.
We hope that the number of direct transactions with cash should become smaller and smaller, but various communication disorders absolutely could be inevitable.

現金は裏金を生む。振り込み履歴の残る受け渡しでは裏金にならない。だが裏金がある限り汚職はなくならない。これからも自民党は悪事を続けることができる。
A direct transaction with cash results in “secret money” between a politician and a corporation representative.
A indirect transaction with digital money couldn’t lead to “secret money,” which leaves a bank statement.
Such a money fails to prevent greedy Diet members from entering into a conventional LDP corruption, which never fails to continue from now on.

実はキャッシュレス化が進むと風俗の女の子が困るらしい。タンス預金は実は高齢者ではなくて彼女たちだ。銀行に預けることができない大金を部屋に保管してしてある。
Cashless society makes negative contributions to a cast in an adult entertainment business, an online article says, because they find it undesirable to accept digital money when they are paid.
It is natural that digital money must be accompanied by a bank statement, so that it could demonstrate that they are in an adult entertainment industry.
They are forced to keep a large amount of money in their own room, in short, their mattress money might outweigh elderly seniors’ one.

だからと言って一般庶民の1000万円を超える貯金に税金をかける貯蓄税だけは許されない。それは合法的な泥棒だ。血税の使途が不明なのもそれに近いんじゃないの。
This doesn’t mean that the government could impose saving taxation on ordinary citizens, who have deposited more than 10 million yen in the bank.
This kind of taxation deprives us of what we have had illegally, which must be a legal theft.
We haven’t been informed of how our bloody tax has been spent by the government, which seems similar to a legal theft, we assume.

There are too smart and clever officials in Japan.
Instead, in the ministry of economic and financial.