The government and the left continually advance the most pathetic argument in Norwegian politics: It is “antisocial” to cut taxes on food because the rich also buy food.

Yes, imagine that. The rich eat as well. Therefore ordinary people must continue to pay high prices for milk, bread and eggs, because otherwise the rich would receive a small discount they would scarcely even notice. This is not merely stupid, it is downright impertinent. The rich buy more food, they buy larger cabins, more expensive cars, airline tickets to Thailand and clothes that ordinary people cannot afford. That is precisely what it means to be rich.

They spend more money on almost everything.

To present this as an argument against tax cuts is like refusing to lower petrol prices because the rich also drive cars. Jonas Gahr Støre and Jens Stoltenberg personally are rich. For them it means nothing whether taxes on food, fuel or electricity are high. But for many part-time employees, for example cleaners, whom Støre before the election claimed he thought so much about, this is deadly serious. For them, a few thousand kroner saved will be the difference between whether they can manage on their own or must stand in a food queue at the Salvation Army (Frelsesarmeen).

But the left has never been concerned with those who actually have little. That exists only on paper. At least for many of them. For Støre and Stoltenberg it means nothing that ordinary families, pensioners and low-paid workers struggle with the bills, so long as it entails that millionaires do not save a few thousand kroner a year on food. This is not social policy. This is class contempt disguised as morality.

They call it “justice”. The rest of us call it idiocy.

Jonas Gahr Støre and Jens Stoltenberg are like cactuses in Norwegian politics. They thrive best in dry, barren environments, they absorb all the resources they can, and the more you try to touch them, the more they prick. Photo: Pixabay

High taxes on food are a purely regressive tax. They hit those with the lowest income hardest in percentage terms. But evidently Ap and SV do not care about that. They are more concerned with appearing moral than actually doing something that helps ordinary people. It is time to admit the obvious: The left does not love ordinary people. They love the state, they love taking money from people, and they love feeling superior while doing it.

Cutting taxes on food is not antisocial.

It is the most elementarily sensible thing one can do in a country where people already pay prices that are relatively among the highest in the world. That this is still being discussed says everything about how distorted the Norwegian left has become. If one wished, it would take only a few strokes of the pen to eliminate poverty in Norway. One merely needed to cut somewhat in subsidies for the war in Ukraine, idiotic climate aid and reduce immigration from Muslim countries, which we now know full well will become an enormous expense for the public sector.

It is that simple, in fact, and Støre & co. know this very well.

But they want you to believe something else. Socialism is in practice taking from everyone in order to give to a small elite within the network. This is generally known, but people still allow themselves to be deceived. Do not be one of them!

Støre and Stoltenberg lie directly to the face of the Norwegian people, as they have done for many decades. The best proof of this is when Støre says to Sylvi Listhaug, after she has called him a liar, that she uses techniques which “resemble the far right in the USA”.

Then most people understand what sort of level Støre is operating on.