Of treasures we are weighed down
The Labor Party has played its role as the workers’ party. After the 2021 election, where we got the redest parliament in modern times, the Labor Party became overpowered in introducing socialist politics. This went really badly, and the consequences are noticing people now.
When the red tabs are waving in front of the LO building on May 1, they have forgotten the third verse in their fighting song International « Against us state laws bend – by treasures we are weighed down ».
Why has the labor movement removed just this verse? Perhaps because it reveals an unpleasant truth about what the Labor Party has become – a party that deals with most people down with taxes, contravenes the labor movement’s original struggle for ordinary workers.
From freedom struggle to taxpress
The Labor Party has become the guarantor of a high level of taxation. Since Støre became prime minister in 2021, they have systematically increased the total tax burden. They have increased wealth tax, which affects Norwegian business owners and jobs. They have introduced basic interest tax on aquaculture and wind power. They have increased the CO2 tax and a number of other fees that affect ordinary people hardest.
People should get better advice, the Labor Party said, but what happened to fuel prices and no prices? Do you remember how much cheaper a shopping cart was in the grocery store when Frp set government? We have repeatedly proposed to halve the VAT, so that the state does not raise billions extra on people to need food.
The Støre government goes wrong way
The Støre government has provided a policy that does not respond to the problems people have in everyday life. As the health queues grow, they cut the offers. As crime increases, it is cut down on police positions. When we need more value creation and growth, the business sector is threatened with nutritional policy. When people get worse advice, taxes and fees increase.
Støre governs contradictions with the values that were previously important to the workers on May 1.
If Støre is allowed to continue, he has promised to continue his line with high taxes. The Labor Party will maintain and probably increase wealth tax, which discriminates against Norwegian -owned companies and forces business owners to take out dividends or sell shares even when the company drops a deficit.
They will continue their « green » tax policy, which in reality is a form of green socialism that affects those with the worst economy hardest. The Labor Party calls this « fair distribution », but in reality it is about tapping the wallets of ordinary people to finance an ever -growing bureaucracy and public consumption.
Frp’s alternative: Freedom for most people
The Progress Party stands for a completely different policy. We believe that most people should keep more of their own money. We want to reduce the tax and tax pressure.
We want to give tax relief to everyone and make it more profitable to work, while we want to cut the fees. It will give people more financial freedom of action.
We want to remove the entire wealth tax, because we believe it is wrong to punish Norwegian owners and damage Norwegian jobs, but also incorrectly that Grandma should use his pension to pay taxes on a repaid home.
We want to reduce fuel fees because we know that the car is a necessity for many in everyday life. At the same time, Frp will halve the VAT on food.
Who really fights for workers?
On May 1, we should ask: Who is really fighting for workers today? Is it the Labor Party, which will maintain a sky-high tax level, or is it the Progress Party, who will let people keep more of their own money?
The third verse in the International tells an unpleasant truth to the Labor Party. They have gone from being the workers’ party to becoming the party’s party. They forgot their own battle song, and they forgot who they once fought for.
The Progress Party will continue to fight for ordinary people to keep more of their own money. We want to fight green socialism, where climate policy is used to extract more money from people’s wallets. We will fight for a Norway where it pays to work, save and invest.
So when the labor movement gathers on May 1, they should perhaps take a look at the stroked verse in their own battle song. Because there is a truth that the Labor Party would prefer to forget, but as the Progress Party will never stop reminding them: « Against us the laws of the state, we are burdened by taxes. »
