A strong country requires a strong economy
Our security and very basic values such as democracy, freedom and independence are under stronger pressure than in a long time. Norway and our allies in Europe must now take greater responsibility for our own safety and future.
In the years to come, we will have to spend more money on the Armed Forces, while also having ability to pay for the generations of us to grow up in a well -functioning welfare society. Then Norway and Europe must become more productive, ie create greater values with less resources. We need to facilitate investments, entrepreneurship and value creation.
Business investments are falling, interest rates are high, more and more entrepreneurs sound alarms and business owners pack their suitcase and leave the country. Statistics Norway reports full brake in the number of new companies. That growth has slowed down since 2022, and we must return to the financial crisis in 2009 to find a similar flat development in the number of companies.
At the same time, we know that oil and gas revenues will gradually fall. We are getting older to be taken care of by fewer young people, and our economy will be restructured to prevent large and expensive climate change. The time when we can only throw more oil money on all the challenges that emerge are over. In the future, we politicians will be forced to prioritize harder.
The most important thing we can do to lay the foundation a large -scale renovation of the Armed Forces, while at the same time taking care of welfare for future generations, is to build our economy more strongly.
It is now that we lay the foundation for what Norway will live on tomorrow. When companies grow, hire people and make money, they create greater values for the community. This is what in the long run will give us a strong economy that can bear all our expenses. Strong companies are also more resistant to financial shocks and crises, and often important contributors to the emergency preparedness locally.
If we are to get it, the taxes must be lowered for both people and businesses. It includes removing the wealth tax on working capital. A tax that business owners with a Norwegian passport have to pay, but which the company across the street with a foreign owner does not release. Aps Bjørnar Skjæran will not understand that, who continues with his well -known dogmas of the Right in the absence of his own policy to meet a new reality.
For the Right, it is quite clear that the renovation and restructuring we are going through will cost dearly. If we are to build our country stronger, we must build our economy stronger. Then we have to facilitate more value creation, not less.
Tina bridge
Fiscal spokesperson
Deputy Leader in the Right
