Savings proposals: SVP wants to go further, SP wants more revenue
Published: Thursday, Sep 5th 2024, 14:10
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The SVP Switzerland welcomes the expert group's savings proposals to reduce the burden on the federal budget. However, it sees much more potential for savings - in the area of asylum, development aid, cultural subsidies "and the luxury salaries of the federal administration."
Federal expenditure has almost doubled since 2000, wrote the SVP Switzerland in a press release on Thursday. The state is also becoming more and more expensive: it cost citizens around CHF 6,500 per capita at federal level in 2000. Now it is already around 9500 francs.
The SVP had already submitted savings proposals with a potential of CHF 5.5 billion to the group of experts and Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter in April. The party will offer its support for a bourgeois savings alliance with the FDP and the center in order to balance the federal finances and "continue the successful debt brake."
The SVP will reject all proposals aimed at increasing revenue or raising taxes and duties.
For SP "frontal attack on social Switzerland"
The SP Switzerland spoke of a "frontal attack on social Switzerland". The group of experts had set the wrong priorities and ignored important facts. The austerity proposals would "set Switzerland back years" in terms of climate protection, equality and purchasing power, said SP Co-President Cédric Wermuth in a party statement.
There is plenty of scope on the revenue side to finance key socio-political issues. "Corporations and billionaires" must be held accountable.
In a "paper for the future", the SP Switzerland proposes a "renunciation of inefficient and unfair tax deductions" and a "correction of the excessive tax gifts of the neoliberal era". To this end, the SP demands "pragmatic solidarity contributions from the capital side" and the "elimination of legal tax crime (banking secrecy)."
The debt brake also needs to be modernized. It must "finally be interpreted wisely": Debt must be stabilized in relation to economic growth instead of being reduced.
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