By Months: Mart Maastik
Total Months: 11
Fully Profiled: 11
12.2024
35 Speeches
Economic policy focuses on restoring competitiveness, strongly opposing tax hikes and excessive regulation, which, for instance, caused the Ericsson investment to fall through. It supports using borrowed funds for infrastructure investments (the Hoover Dam), provided Euribor could be regulated at the national level. It strongly advocates reducing the burden on businesses by easing bureaucratic and auditing requirements. It criticizes the excessively high salaries and performance bonuses paid to state-owned enterprise executives, demanding accountability.
11.2024
43 Speeches
It strongly opposes raising taxes and excise duties (such as the alcohol excise tax and the massive tax hikes), especially during an economic recession, viewing this as short-sighted policy. It advocates for stimulating the economy and supporting entrepreneurship, criticizing regulations that impede business activity. It warns that costly green energy projects (offshore wind farms) and astronomical fixed tariffs will destroy Estonia's competitiveness.
10.2024
23 Speeches
His economic views are strongly opposed to tax increases (such as excise duties and the car tax), arguing that these measures reduce competitiveness and exacerbate the economic downturn. He criticizes government expenditure and large subsidies (specifically offshore wind farms), which he believes drive up input costs and undermine business capability. Furthermore, he sees no cost savings in the splitting of ministries.
09.2024
8 Speeches
His/Her economic views are centered on protecting competitiveness and opposing tax hikes, arguing that the elimination of the tax hump (maksuküür) would actually worsen the economic situation. He/She strongly criticizes subsidies and investments (billions of euros) which result in massive fixed charges on electricity bills, claiming the profits flow directly into the pockets of foreign companies. He/She emphasizes that investments must be managed wisely.
07.2024
5 Speeches
The speaker is vehemently opposed to tax hikes, seeing them as destructive to economic competitiveness and a repetition of the mistakes made in 2008. They suggest funding the necessary defense expenditures via a national defense loan, rather than through tax increases, citing Estonia's low debt burden. They stress the need to cut back on the costs of running the state and reduce services before raising taxes.
06.2024
28 Speeches
Strong opposition to tax increases (car tax, land tax), which are considered detrimental to the economy and damaging to competitiveness. Supports curbing state expenditures (government maintenance costs) and unreasonable election promises to avoid a budget deficit. Criticizes large, ill-conceived state investments (Rail Baltic, offshore wind farms, nuclear energy) that create significant long-term costs for taxpayers.
05.2024
24 Speeches
Economic views are strongly pro-business and anti-tax hikes, opposing the car tax and the mandated increase of land tax by local municipalities. The speaker criticizes the extraordinary profits of the banking sector and the government's inaction regarding compensation for damages caused by the failure of the Land Board’s system. They demand fair compensation for landowners facing restrictions and prefer cheaper, more pragmatic energy production methods (onshore wind farms) over expensive, subsidized offshore wind farms.
04.2024
30 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to tax increases, arguing that they fail to stimulate the economy and instead force people to take out quick loans. He advocates ensuring the competitiveness of businesses in the energy market (maintaining the universal service with a price cap) and criticizes state intervention in the private enterprise sector (the credit register) and costly EU projects (the talent reserve).
03.2024
14 Speeches
The speaker opposes allowing banks to retain the extraordinary profit (driven by Euribor) and proposes, as a solution, directing this windfall to the Bank of Estonia to cover state expenditures (e.g., 10 million for teachers). They are against the government’s planned new taxes (car tax, sugar tax) and cuts to family benefits, arguing these measures negatively affect ordinary citizens.
02.2024
28 Speeches
The party/group supports a low tax burden and the promotion of entrepreneurship, while opposing tax hikes that increase the overall burden and foster the shadow economy. It views cost reduction and economic growth—rather than tax increases—as the key to improving state finances. Furthermore, it supports taking out a dedicated loan for national defense, citing the corrosive effect of inflation, and stresses the decrease in purchasing power caused by taxation.
01.2024
12 Speeches
The speaker is decidedly pro-business, criticizing the government's "tax-the-rich" policy and calling for better competitive conditions for Estonian businesses (specifically hauliers) by standardizing daily allowances (per diems). He advocates channeling the revenue generated from CO2 quotas toward upgrading electricity networks to facilitate the green transition and the wider adoption of renewable energy.