This is a budget without crisis insight, says the Social Democrats' economic policy spokesperson Mikael Damberg.
According to him, the budget shows that the government and SD were not prepared for the trade war, for the low-conjuncture to take hold or for food prices to rise again.
We are worse equipped than we should be.
Damberg points out that Sweden's unemployment is one of Europe's highest and that the state's costs for it are increasing in the budget.
Wouldn't it have been better with active measures for work and education instead of being forced to write up the costs for unemployment?
Raising support for families with children
The Social Democrat is also calling for more support to households, for example increased child allowance and making the temporarily increased housing allowance for families with children permanent.
To increase economic growth, the Social Democrats want to see a new investment support for housing construction.
According to the Centre Party, the government has no answers to households' worries.
This is an uncertainty we haven't seen in living memory, says C's economic policy spokesperson Martin Ådahl.
Ådahl had wanted to see the government invest 20 billion kronor in new measures, instead of the 11.5 billion that is now being proposed.
"Replacing kitchen doors"
Most of all, the Centre Party wants to reduce taxes and employer fees for 17 billion for companies.
Ådahl is critical of the government's proposal for a temporary extension of the ROT deduction.
You don't meet hundreds of thousands of unemployed people by replacing kitchen doors. It's completely insufficient, he says.
We want a powerful crisis package. We can't continue with "wait and see" politics.
The Green Party criticizes the spring budget for being too passive and tone-deaf. The party wants to see more support for vulnerable families with children, investments in welfare and climate policy.
"Shameless right-wing politics"
MP's economic policy spokesperson Janine Alm Ericson slams the government's extended ROT deduction and claims that it only benefits high-income earners.
This is shameless right-wing politics when it's at its worst, she says.
The Left Party's economic policy spokesperson Ida Gabrielsson believes that large investments in welfare are the best way to counteract "mass unemployment".
She also accuses Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson of betraying the country's most vulnerable families and claims that many children can't even afford to have birthday parties.
You're depriving children of their childhood, says Gabrielsson.
Does Elisabeth Svantesson have a heart of stone?
