Left Calls for The Government on a Diet

Left calls for the government on a diet

With a proposal for savings in government reopens Liberal tax spokesman reopens hot debate in the party.

For the first time playing Left now out with demands for the upcoming tax reform. The party will save and improve the efficiency in the public sector to find money to ease the tax burden on labor, says the tax spokesman Torsten Schack Pedersen.

 - The higher the funding that comes in that the public sector will go a little further on a liter, the greater the likelihood that we can make a deal, he says.

Previously, the Liberals announced that although the party would implement ‘real’ tax cuts in the longer term, so it may well be involved in a tax reform that lowers taxes on labor and find the money by raising other taxes. It rejects Torsten Schack Pedersen also not conclusive, but he puts a big question mark over whether it can be done.

 - I find it hard to see that you can increase taxes by the amount necessary, without it contains highly problematic financing, he said.

Liberal announcement comes after the Radicals in conflict with the government line has also floated the idea of ​​financing a portion of the tax cuts with savings.

The major opposition party harder line may create problems for the government that makes it difficult to find a majority for his tax reform without the Liberals.

Neither the Social Democrats’ spokesman Magnus Heunicke or SF Jesper Petersen will finance tax reform through public savings.

 - You have to understand it so that the Liberals will cut the public sector to reduce taxes. But we reject the words of financing tax cuts with cuts in the Danish welfare, “said spokesman in SF Jesper Petersen.

With the announcement breathes Torsten Schack Pedersen while new life into a sensitive debate within the Liberal Party. Before the election agreed VKO a real growth in public consumption of 0.8 percent per year until 2020. In last week suggested Vice Kristian Jensen (V) in Berlingske regular zero growth by 2020, among other things to finance tax cuts. After internal strife within the party joined Kristian Jensen later in the day that the Liberals still stood by the original 2020 plan.

Now put Torsten Schack Pedersen with his announcement as yet up to the lower growth. Thus approaching the Left Liberal Alliance and the Conservatives who have long called for regular tax cuts to help the government reform – the Conservatives, even with an ultimate requirement.