By Months: Rain Epler
Total Months: 9
Fully Profiled: 9
11.2025
35 Speeches
He/She strongly opposes regressive taxes (like VAT), arguing that they disproportionately affect the poorest citizens. The speaker favors fiscal discipline and criticizes the inefficiency of the state’s systems for collecting revenue and administering subsidies, noting that this process wastes 3–5 million euros. Furthermore, they warn that raising taxes only to pay them back later as subsidies is inherently inefficient and will ultimately lead to bankruptcy.
10.2025
90 Speeches
Economic views emphasize budget transparency and the independence of critical economic analyses from the government. Implicit opposition is expressed toward government intervention in the business sector, criticizing the minister's attacks against merchants for building stores. Clarity is demanded regarding the "crazy ideas" that either remained in or were removed from the budget.
09.2025
43 Speeches
The speaker is concerned about the decline in the economic competitiveness of Europe and Estonia, attributing this trend to energy dependence (fossil fuel imports) and over-regulation. He advocates for sound energy decisions and Estonia's return to the role of an electricity exporter, strongly opposing the prioritization of wind and solar power.
06.2025
43 Speeches
Strongly opposed to bureaucratic and tax burdens, supporting the abolition of the car tax and ESG reporting. Views green energy as expensive and inefficient, highlighting its significant spatial footprint and the necessity of further investments (batteries, gas power plants). Favors transparent political party donations without the current complex regulatory framework.
05.2025
65 Speeches
Strongly advocates for favorable energy input (oil shale at 30–40 EUR/MWh) as the foundation for economic growth and competitiveness, contrasting this with subsidized intermittent electricity. It sharply opposes government tax hikes (car tax, VAT, excise duties), considering them irresponsible and punitive toward lower-income residents. It supports reducing bureaucracy, such as making ESG reporting voluntary.
04.2025
54 Speeches
The economic platform is strongly tax-critical and consumption-supportive, demanding a reduction of the VAT on groceries to 5% in order to improve family livelihoods and stimulate domestic consumption. It supports state intervention in the financial sector to prevent banks from engaging in "excessive profiteering" through the taxation of extraordinary profits. It considers cheap and reliable domestic energy (oil shale, nuclear power) the key to economic revitalization, standing against the waste involved in developing wind farms and gas plants.
03.2025
17 Speeches
Economic views are strongly focused on tax reduction and anti-bureaucracy, being particularly critical of the car tax and security tax components, which they argue are strangling the economy. They believe that unfair taxation is squeezing money out of families with children and residents of rural areas. The speaker advocates for exempting industry from the CO2 quota fee to ensure a weather-independent and sufficiently accessible energy supply.
02.2025
18 Speeches
The speaker is critical of the government's fiscal policy, pointing to the deterioration of the budget situation. He strongly opposes large state subsidy schemes (2.6 billion euros allocated to the energy sector), branding them "stupid decisions" that are making Estonia poorer. He emphasizes the necessity of conducting an economic impact assessment before implementing new regulations.
01.2025
45 Speeches
It supports stimulating the economy by lowering taxes (specifically reducing the VAT on foodstuffs below 9%) and cutting wasteful spending, aiming to give the economy "oxygen." It advocates for implementing an extraordinary bank tax on excess profits generated by rapidly raising interest rates without compensating depositors. It strongly opposes new taxes (such as a car tax or the abolition of the income tax exemption) and expenditures related to the green transition that lead to energy poverty.