Our idea is that the emphasis of taxation must be changed from taxation of work to taxation of capital. If we want to get more jobs we must favour work. With this idea we social democrats are in European main stream. We count energy and environmental taxes to capital taxation. It is clear that we need European decisions on taxation.
National space is small.
Our greatest challenges are on one hand balancing regional development of employment and on the other hand reduction of unemployment of elderly people. We must face the truth with respect to regional development in Finland. The structure of our population is very scattered compared with e.g. Sweden and it dates back to a totally different economy dominated by primary production. New economy is based on information and interaction. It requests diversity in services.