Rousseau will go all out for the millionaire tax on May 1: “Some of that select group are asking for it themselves”
Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau goes again in his speech on the eve of May 1 full for a millionaire’s tax. Anyone who really means it with the budget will have no choice, he told the Royal Library. However, MR already made it clear this week that the coalition agreement leaves little room for additional taxes. Notably absent from the speech: the energy measures that Flemish Minister Hans Bonte tried to get through the Council of Ministers twice in vain.
Just like last year, the Flemish socialists will gather in the center of Brussels for speeches by the Vooruit chairman, the CEO of ABVV and the general secretary of Solidaris.
Rousseau pats himself on his chest in front of several hundred members protection of the automatic index. “Built by socialists a hundred years ago and saved by socialists a hundred years later.” The current federal government, in which Vooruit sits, did indeed retain the index, but wanted to level it off for higher wages. “Times are changing, but one thing will never change. I won’t let them take that index away. Not today, not tomorrow, never“, said Rousseau.
To save the budget, the president sees some other solutions on Labor Day. To begin with, the increased compensation must again reach those who need it. Vooruit has been campaigning for one again for several days now extensive asset testsomething that N-VA, among others, does not like.
In addition, Rousseau wants one millionaire tax. “A contribution from a small select club. A contribution that some of that club themselves are asking for.” Otherwise, he believes, the federal budget will no longer be okay. “Ordinary people pay too much today because a small group pays too little. You can only solve that with a millionaire tax. Only in this way will ordinary workers pay less, have more net income and get our country in order.”
Rousseau also holds one plea for more Europewhich must take its own fate into its own hands. Earlier this year, the Socialists proposed making only European-made company cars tax deductible. Now the president is calling for “one European future”. “With its own energy, its own industry and its own technology.”
Tomorrow Rousseau will take part in the parade in his home town of Sint-Niklaas and give a speech in Zelzate.
