By Years: Rain Epler

Total Years: 2

Fully Profiled: 2

2025

325 Speeches

There is strong opposition to tax hikes (car tax, VAT on food, income tax for families with children) and support for tax cuts aimed at stimulating the economy ("oxygen for the economy"). It favors taxing banks' extraordinary profits ("the bank tax") and demands cuts to the state budget's "foolish expenditures" by eliminating ideological projects. It views cheap energy as the basis for economic growth.
2024

404 Speeches

The speaker is strongly opposed to tax increases (VAT, car tax, security tax) and supports tax reductions (for example, implementing a bank tax on windfall profits). He emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurship and profit for economic growth, and criticizes the expansion of state bureaucracy and the wasting of money on ideological projects (Rail Baltic, green subsidies). He supports putting state finances in order, but not through tax increases.