Today I’ll stand on the balcony and clap for NHO

The “Next Move” roadmap points to a society that most Norwegians want to avoid.

Titles like “NHO: The golden age is over” and “It will change Norway completely” shone in online newspapers on Monday.

In fact, the NHO employers’ organization has used the crown to create a “roadmap for the business community of the future.” It quickly turned out to be more than that.

“In fact, I would say that this is the match program above all the match programs,” NHO Director Ole Erik Almlid told Dagbladet Børsen before the launch.

So the question is: What will it be like to live in the NHO community?

Well, to put it mildly, it’s going to be a society where the rich go.

Collect the tax burden (excluding taxes on oil) will be reduced from 43 to a maximum of 40 percent of value creation in just ten years. NHO, in particular, points to the estate tax as a good place to raise a bit.

It is said that time and time again we must “check” welfare plans to see what we can afford. To put it this way: NHO has no ambitions that we should be equally critical of the schemes the community has for the business community.

Norway “will complete municipal reform and other structural reforms in the public sector with a clear realization of gains.” The vast majority of what costs money in the municipal sector are statutory tasks such as school, daycare and caring for the elderly.

Yes one To save money in municipalities, there are basically only two things that really matter: cutting the number of positions or centralizing with a heavy hand (so that the number of positions can be cut again).

So it was.

Of course, there are large parts of the report that many can support: more competition in working life, greener exports, renewed industrial investment, strengthening the line of work, etc. The controversy lies in the vision of the welfare state.

NHO asked the rest of us about tightening their lap belts, so that they themselves can extend a notch or two in their belt. You are quite free to ask that there be a premise for further discussion.

I think one of the problems in the roadmap is the lack of understanding at NHO of what the public sector really is for something.

To Dagbladet Ole Erik Almlid spoke about the importance of privatizing: “Nurses have warm hands regardless of whether they work in the public or private sector.”

The use of language is interesting. Nurses do not go to work mainly because they have “warm hands” but because they have the relevant education.

For all I know It could be that Almlid’s hands are really hot. This still makes him completely unable to accept a job as a nurse.

NHO is hesitant to say anything about whether we should cut back on the welfare state. We will undoubtedly find out through “a broad and deep debate.” I guess the answer won’t be “stop having big trust-based crisis packages for the business community.”

At the same time, they want to privatize public services in abundance. But you don’t reduce the size of public tasks simply by requiring private ones to perform them.

Today’s kindergarten cluster and nursing home conglomerate are still funded by taxes.

It’s wrong anyway to think that a kindergarten teacher “creates growth” if he is in the private sector, but is a burden if he is employed in the municipality.

This is far from the only thing that does not go together. More middle positions and a greater degree of organization? It is almost impossible to achieve it at the same time. People who live in insecure jobs organize less often.

The same can be said about the vision of public finances. NHO believes that it is very important to reduce public spending. At the same time, they are time and again in favor of transportation projects worth several tens of billions, because they are practical for the business community.

This kind of double standard makes it demanding to take the “Next Step” very seriously.

The NHO itself says that ambitions are made so that they can be realized. That, of course, is completely wrong.

No party which would go to the polls in the sense that practically all the plans of the society should be oriented to make the employer side easier and fatter, at the same time that ordinary people receive less welfare.

Our wellness state is full of talented people. They need, like the business community, “predictable framework conditions”, “stable regulations” and “high confidence”.

Nothing of that get them from NHO.