Stelzer wants to blame for the BUND – Diepresse.com

Upper Austria sees itself as a model for the federal government with his guilty covers introduced in 2024. Such a souvenir should also be made for the federal budget, said Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) on the occasion of a media reception on Monday evening in Vienna. In the upcoming talks on the stability pact, Stelzer would like sufficient money for the transferred tasks and investments in competitiveness, it said in a broadcast sent in advance.

Upper Austria introduced a debt brake in 2018. From 2024 it was converted into a culprit cover, which is estimated with 25 percent of the income. Now Stelzer can also imagine this for the federal government, because beyond the current savings of the need for savings, one has to “already think about how such a sier can be prevented in the future,” said the governor.

The only federal state with surplus surplus

His own federal state was also very careful with tax money last year and was the only federal state to achieve a Maastricht excess. This is also evident in the debt rate: at 12.62 percent, Upper Austria is significantly lower than the other federal states with an average of around 50 percent. Stelzer deposits deposited for the starting exchange of the federal, state and municipalities on the future of the stability package, which affects the financing of care, health, childcare and education.

Stelzer wants to force the expansion of public transport. He rejected the fact that ÖBB wanted to check for bus connections for budgetary reasons for the changeover of the regional trains Mühlkreis-, Hausruck- und Almtalbahn. « I firmly assume and also require that these agreements in the interests of the users also have public transport, » emphasized Stelzer. (APA)