SVT Agenda's calculation shows that Ulf Kristersson, who has SEK 176,000 in monthly salary himself, receives SEK 10,500 more in his wallet each month with the Moderates tax policy, while a person who earns just over SEK 30,000 a month may settle for just under SEK 300 more. But Kristersson does not think this is unfair.
- If you make more money, you pay more in taxes. If you go back to half, those who have high incomes will receive more tax cuts, but that is because we have come too high up in the tax tables.
But how do you keep the community together with such large income gaps?
- I am much more concerned about a society where you cannot take power over your own life, where you cannot leave dependency and get into work, says Ulf Kristersson, and stress that education and effort should pay off.
- The most important thing is to get people into the labor market. The likelihood that you can get paid better by working than getting a grant is too small simply.
"A system error"The moderates want to lose the contributions and suggest that they should not be able to stack contributions on each other.
- The contribution ceiling as a rule of thumb should be that one should never be able to receive more than 75 percent in total contributions compared to what a low salary would give. It should always be the case that work gives more money than many grants together, says Kristersson.
- If you receive more money through grants than through work, we have a system error. Incentive matters.
"Effort should pay off"Ulf Kristersson says that there are examples of people who can do without work at the same time as we receive labor immigrants who, for example, pick berries.
- I think that's the wrong principle. There should always be more money for the person who exits and works than the person who receives a grant.
The solution for the person who has difficulty entering the labor market is education and also a carrot that it will pay more to work, says Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson.