If we want to keep costs down in a sector with high levels of consumption and opaque prices we need to increase supply and make prices more transparent.

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On the economy, the differences among candidates turn on whether a rise in the consumption tax is needed to plug a gaping budget deficit and bring down the high levels of debt incurred when Japan tried to spend its way out of slump in the 1990s.

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