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MDG party leader Une Bastholm sees a single bright spot in the state budget, while SV’s Kaski is very concerned about party money.
On Tuesday night, the FRP and the government agreed on the state budget for 2021.
Read about all the most important budget points here.
Une Bastholm on the MDGs is not happy with how the money is being spent:
– The government uses the billions as drunken sailors. Think of all we could have done for the environment, justice, and green jobs with $ 22 billion! Now they are making it cheaper to buy a fossil car and spend two billion on tolls, rather than abandoning expensive roads. Create more pollution and climate change, Bastholm enrages.
She is still a bit optimistic at one point:
– There is only one bright spot here that makes me really happy, namely that animal policing is now spreading nationwide. But I’m afraid the police won’t get enough resources for the job and will still have to prioritize cases of crimes against animals, which can often also be related to violence against people, says Bastholm.
The MDG leader blames the ruling parties:
– Conservatives, Liberals and Christian Democrats now allow the FRP to further abuse refugee policy. It is the refugee need for protection that will determine who we receive, not whether one is Christian or Muslim. With today’s changes, asylum seekers will also have their lives on hold for longer and will fight even harder to reunite with their families. It’s sad and heartbreaking, he concludes.
Not happy labor party
Eigil Knutsen is a member of the Storting Finance Committee. He’s also not enthusiastic about the budget:
– After weeks of arguing, this divorce deal ends when the government and FRP agree to cheaper alcohol and turn against cuts in refugee and assistance fees. These negotiations have not focused on what we can do for those who have been laid off or for companies that are struggling and on the brink of bankruptcy. This has been a rematch between FRP and the government on the problems that FRP lost when they were in government. The bill sends our children and grandchildren to the government to use the oil fund, says Eigil Knutsen.
– This looks more like Jensen’s “morna KRF” than crisis management. We are in a crisis of work and health. Almost 200,000 are out of work. The health service is being tested to the limit. So one should hope that all measures that come from the Storting aim to fight this crisis and help those who are struggling. This is an expensive and strange deal that does not answer the biggest challenges Norway has. If it had been up to us, we would have preferred to choose jobs, give laid-off vacations and strengthen the health service, says Eigil Knutsen.
SV: – This is the day that Frp left most of the people
– FRP seems more concerned with making life more difficult for Kjell Ingolf Ropstad than saving people’s jobs, says SV’s Kari Elisabeth Kaski.
– Black and antisocial. This is the day the FRP left most of the people, says SV fiscal policy spokesperson Kari Elisabeth Kaski of the FRP’s budget unity with the government.
She believes that the budget unit does not make life easier for those who face Christmas without knowing if they have a job.
– They are not doing enough to get us out of the crisis. They could save the nightlife industry, allow people who are out of work to get vacation pay next year, or spend billions to invest in new green jobs and fix the climate crisis. Instead, Frp seems more concerned with making life more difficult for Kjell Ingolf Ropstad than with saving people’s jobs, Kaski says.
Red: – Lean comfort with slightly cheaper beer and wine
– When almost 200,000 are unemployed, while the government gradually eliminates schemes that guarantee income to people and weaken organized working life, it is little consolation with some cheaper beer and cheaper wine on the post, says the deputy Rødt, Marie Sneve, on the budget unit.
She notes, among other things, that the government and the FRP have not reintroduced vacation pay into unemployment benefits, as demanded by the Labor Party, the Socialist People’s Party and the Red Party after unemployment rose during the pandemic. of the crown. The government removed the right to vacation pay by receiving unemployment benefits in 2015.
– The electricity, food and rent bill still needs to be paid. It will be the all-time backlash on party money, Sneve says.
Through the agreement, the FRP, among other things, approved a cross-border trade package in which taxes on alcohol, snus and sugary products are reduced or eliminated.
– This agreement gives us above all a more symbolic policy of the FRP and not less differences, at a time when it is most needed, says Sneve.
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The quote is well received by NHO:
– We are pleased that the government and the FRP have met us and our companies in trade by significantly lowering taxes on typical cross-border commercial products. This will change shopping habits and create new jobs in Norway, says Anne-Cecilie Kaltenborn, CEO. in NHO Service and Commerce.
Virke is also satisfied:
– The cuts in taxes on cross-border trade are a historic step to generate more jobs and create value in our country. This is important and correct when we are in the greatest crisis of our generation, says Ivar Horneland Kristensen, CEO of Virke, the leading trade and service industry organization.
– It is respected that the FRP and the government are taking steps to reverse a one-year development with increased cross-border trade.
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