European Parliament
Reinhard Bütikofer  (Verts/ALE ),
Blue-card question.
(DE)
Mr President, Ms Gardini, simply so that I understand you correctly: if, as the Commission proposes, the taxation of labour is reduced and this is replaced with taxation of resources, how then does this increase the burden on citizens? That is what I did not understand. My second question to you is: if it is a fact that labour productivity has risen much faster than resource productivity, why are we inhibiting our economy instead of pushing forward with resource productivity?

