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At a recent event in Amsterdam, Jesse Klaver, the parliamentary leader of Pro, invited Prime Minister Rob Jetten for negotiations on the Tax Plan and emphasized that despite the success of his party in the polls, cooperation with the VVD should not be ruled out. #ProgressiefNederland #JesseKlaver #SocialeZekerheid (translated)

Ann Van Haute wrote that the situation in France was so serious according to her that the government held crisis talks and deployed extra security forces. She criticized the public broadcaster because it, according to her, had portrayed the events as protests in which the police used tear gas again, and depicted looting, arson, and serious riots as a story about harassed demonstrators. She called that journalism funded with tax money. #Frankrijk #Crisis #Journalistiek (translated)

Rob Roos criticized the NOS for its reporting on protests in France. According to him, students and schoolchildren initially demonstrated for better education, and farmers, nurses, and taxi drivers joined them that day. Roos called the reporting non-neutral and claimed that the public was deliberately misinformed. He asked why tax money had to be spent on it and said that the NOS deserved the same outrage as Ongehoord Nederland. #Frankrijk #desinformatie #onderwijs #protest (translated)

Michel Maus stated that the road vignette was indeed a new tax, despite the message that, according to him, was on a N-VA debate note and which Minister Annick De Ridder had repeated. He wrote that the combination of the vignette and the reformed traffic tax would increase car taxation for many Flemish people. According to Maus, electric vehicles before 2026, for which no traffic tax is currently paid, would receive an additional charge with the road vignette. He also pointed out that the reformed traffic tax would take the weight of vehicles into account. Electric cars weigh on average 300 to 500 kilograms more than their fossil counterparts, meaning that the higher tax would not only affect Bentley and Cadillac drivers, as De Ridder had claimed according to Maus. Maus wrote that generating more revenue from car taxation was a political choice and called for that choice to be recognized. He argued that it was not credible to continue insisting that the measure had no tax consequences for the Flemish. In conclusion, he used a coarse insult to emphasize that people were not stupid even in the parking lot. https://t.co/J7ihP4SZj4 #Wegenvignet #Belastingen #Autofiscaliteit (translated)

Bart Nijman wrote that the stuck plastic cap, in his view, symbolized the emptiness of European innovation. He stated that large technology companies and innovations in transport, logistics, and energy were mostly located in the United States and China. Nijman criticized the EU bureaucracy in Brussels and wrote that, in his opinion, it imposed new rules on workers and entrepreneurs while European companies weakened due to a lack of innovation and high energy prices. He mentioned companies in the steel and defense sector and German, French, and Italian car manufacturers. In contrast to Europe, he highlighted a man in the United States who, according to him, made cars drive with rocket boosters and thereby set an acceleration record of 0 to 100 in less than a second. Nijman concluded with the question of whether Europe would emerge from its own malaise and referenced images from several French cities that day. #innovatie #EU #technologie (translated)

Sander van Dam wrote that the Dutch national budget amounted to over €500,000,000,000, or €50,000 per working person in the population. He used derogatory language for people who, in his opinion, thought that too little tax was being collected. https://t.co/eyjal6Bgw7 #Nederland #belasting #economy (translated)

Sander van Dam stated that almost no country in the world had a higher tax burden than the Netherlands and that the problem, according to him, did not lie in too low taxation. He used insulting and derogatory language about his conversation partner. https://t.co/odpjvFhAhI #Belastingen #Nederland #Politiek (translated)

The debate over the announced layoffs at GSK, which could potentially affect up to 1217 employees, raises questions about the conditions of public support for large companies, with disagreements between Gilles Vanden Burre of Ecolo and Frédéric Druck of Essenscia regarding the use of tax incentives. #GSK #Emploi #AidesPubliques (translated)

Denkewel wrote that young Dutch people who had grown up in the Netherlands, according to him, had to travel daily to work far away by train while still living with their parents at the age of thirty. According to him, they paid taxes for new homes for wealthy newcomers and their families, who, according to him, received everything for free and with priority. He called the situation completely insane and stated that people who continued to defend the system while complaining about words that should not be said were lying and complicit in the deliberate destruction of the country. #Nederland #jeugd #wooncrisis (translated)

Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that, in his opinion, tax increases were too obvious in Belgium. He stated that academics, experts, and journalists often defended increases as difficult but inevitable and economically sensible, while political opponents were dismissed as enfant terrible. In Flanders, according to Vande Reyde, within less than two years, registration fees and costs for waste management had been increased, a road tax had been introduced, and various levies had risen, especially for entrepreneurs. The promised reduction of inheritance tax had also been scrapped. No party had announced these measures before the elections, he wrote. Vande Reyde added that, in the meantime, nothing was happening to reduce the state apparatus. According to him, cuts at the federal level were deemed impossible, while the removal of a small amount of Flemish subsidies was portrayed for weeks as an infringement of universal human rights. He also stated that the press regularly presented so-called spontaneous testimonials from people who almost always turned out to be PVDA activists, and that others viewed things differently. #Belastingverhogingen #Vlaanderen #Politiek (translated)

Theo Hiddema described the plan as simple and wrote that Dutch people who felt guilty about the slavery past could achieve spiritual redemption by making an unlimited, tax-free contribution to a support fund. He referred to the target group of the fund with a derogatory term. #slavernij #Nederland #steunfonds (translated)

New negotiations are underway in The Hague's politics for a possible agreement with right-wing parties, in which the leaders of JA21 and SGP, Joost Eerdmans and Henk Stoffer, introduce important wish list items such as asylum and abortion, while the coalition of D66, VVD, and CDA tries to find a majority for their budget and tax plans. #Erdmans #SGP #Asielbeleid (translated)