BUDAPEST, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Hungary's government has considered nationalising private pension funds, but rejected the idea, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday in parliament in a reply to a proposal by far-right leader Gabor Vona.
"You say because people were forced by the state to enter the (private) system, the state force could be applied to bring them back," Orban said. "I think that proposal is worth considering. We considered it, and we rejected it."
He added that extra taxes to be levied in 2010-2012 on the financial, the energy, the telecoms and the retail sectors are worth seeing through even as they carry a bad message to foreign investors.
He said the measures would be temporary and the economy could grow by an annual 4-6 percent within the next three years.
(Reporting by Marton Dunai and Gergely Szakacs)