Today, the first meeting of parliamentary parties in the Finance Committee since the unified opposition decided to want to give more money to welfare and to finance it, among other things, by removing a reduced employers' fee for people who are far from the labor market.
- I probably did not expect M and KD to agree with V to increase the tax on Swedish companies and impair integration, says Emil Källström, economic spokesperson at the Center.
Thus, within the Center, the dissatisfaction seems to be great with the situation, not least when the opposition previously also stopped the reform of the Employment Service, which was also a center-party heart issue.
However, the moderates do not share the picture that Emil Källström paints.
- That's not true. This is a subsidy that the Center Party wants to introduce, which we know has very little effect. We have a strong entrepreneurial policy and we lower the tax more than any other party in the Riksdag, so these are dimrides.
The entry deduction was one of the Center Party's main requirements in the negotiations with the Social Democrats a year ago, and the question now is how the January agreement is affected in the long run.