– The differences in power and wealth have become far too great in Norway. Neither we nor the government can sit and watch, says Kaski to news. The government’s permanent budget partner is now launching a frontal attack against Finance Minister and SP leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum in oral question time at the Storting. – More and more money and power are thus gathered in fewer and fewer hands. At the same time, others are struggling to send packed lunches with their children to school because the economy is not going well, says SV-toppen. She delivers the following clear message to Vedum: The government must do more. – It is entirely possible to do something about this, for example by increasing taxes for them by more than before. The government must not hide, it is about justice. The richest “run away” With them in the suitcase, SV has two recent reports that deal with inequality. Statistics Norway recently published a report showing that the richest 10 per cent earn more than 50 per cent of the net wealth in the country – i.e. more than half. For the even richer, it gets even worse – the richest 5 percent of Norwegians earn more than the “poorest” 80 percent. – When most of the money is owned by fewer people, we know that the rest of us will be worse off. The government’s job is actually also about doing something about inequality in society. Vedum does not take it seriously, says Kaski. SV’s fiscal policy spokesperson points out that the very richest, especially the highest five, one and 0.1 per cent, have increased and increased their share of the wealth under Erna Solberg (H). The bourgeois parties were in power from 2013 to 2021. Since the change of government, this has reversed. But the wealth is still very unevenly distributed, and the new government is far from the goal of cutting the differences from Solberg’s watch, according to SV. GREP: Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp) can do something about the inequality, for example by increasing the taxes for them by more than before, SV believes. Photo: Jorunn Hatling / news Also globally The second report was made by British Oxfam. It shows a global trend where the world’s richest are doubling their wealth, while the poorest are getting poorer. In the last three years, the world’s five richest men have more than doubled their combined wealth to close to NOK 9,000 billion, according to the Oxfam report that NTB has mentioned. – In order to end extreme inequality, governments must radically ensure that the power that billionaires and corporations currently have is transferred back to ordinary people, the report states. – A more equal world is possible if governments effectively regulate and reshape the private sector. The world’s five richest men, Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Warren Buffet, in 2020 had fortunes totaling NOK 4,170 billion. Last year they were good for a total of NOK 8,946 billion. During the same period, 4.8 billion people, who make up more than half of the world’s inhabitants, became poorer, writes NTB.
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