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title: "Envy Day and Right-Wing Politics | Tere Sammallahti | Negotiator 422"
summary: "National Coalition Party MP Tere Sammallahti and Sami Miettinen go through Finland's annual tax-data release day and Sammallahti's bill to protect the privacy of tax data, take apart the claim that the rich avoid tax through tricks, and ask why a successful Finn still has to apologise. The political core is why the Finns Party is rising while the National Coalition falls, and whether the right-wing bloc can still reach a majority government. Sammallahti admits his party has failed at communication and warns right-wing parties against painting themselves into separate corners. The episode closes on the threat of a French debt crisis, Finland's used-up fiscal buffer, data centres, Valmet Automotive and AI forcing the public sector to change too."
datePublished: 2026-11-14
dateModified: 2026-11-14
originalLang: en
section: society
sections: ["society","economy"]
authors: ["Sami Miettinen"]
tags: ["Neuvottelija","EP422","Tere Sammallahti","Sami Miettinen","National Coalition Party","Finns Party","Tax data","Envy Day","Private member's bill","Taxation","Public spending","Finnish parliamentary election 2027","Right-wing bloc","France","Debt crisis","Data centres","Google","Valmet Automotive","Stock-option taxation","AI","Finland"]
canonical: https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep422-kateuspaiva-ja-oikeistopolitiikka-tere-sammallahti/
---
# Envy Day and Right-Wing Politics | Tere Sammallahti | Negotiator 422

# Envy Day and Right-Wing Politics | Tere Sammallahti | Negotiator 422

> **Summary:**
> [Tere Sammallahti](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/tere-sammallahti/) is a National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) MP for Uusimaa. The episode opens with the day Finland publishes its citizens' tax data, which Sammallahti calls "Envy Day" or "national peeping day". He has filed a bill under which tax data would be released only in anonymised form. The second half turns to the line-up before the spring 2027 parliamentary election: in Sammallahti's view his party has failed at communication and the Finns Party has looked more consistent, but the bigger problem is that the right-wing bloc would not reach a majority on current polling. The episode ends on France, Finland's narrow fiscal buffer, data centres and AI.
>
> **How to read this.** The captions carry no speaker labels, so speakers were inferred from the conversation and the publisher's description. This is a political conversation between two people on the right: judgements about parties, politicians and the media are their own opinions. Figures are marked as checked only where a source is given. When Google's data centres come up, Miettinen discloses that he owns Alphabet shares and has received a Google dinner invitation.

Sammallahti is a regular guest. He was last on in the members' episode [Tere Sammallahti's AI Journey (Inner Circle 172)](https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/sisapiiri172-tere-sammallahden-tekoalymatka/), recorded in the same session as a continuation of this conversation. The long taxation thread starts with [Taxation, the Laffer Curve and Libera (Negotiator 32)](https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep32-verotus-lafferin-kayra-ja-libera-tere-sammallahti/), and an earlier Envy Day was covered in [Envy Day, Taxes and YEL (Negotiator 220)](https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep220-kateuspaiva-verot-yel-ivan-puopolo/).

## 1. Envy Day and a bill on tax-data privacy

Sammallahti has filed a bill to strengthen the privacy of tax data. The idea is to hide names while giving researchers anonymised data for social research. The bill is [LA 30/2025 vp](https://www.eduskunta.fi/pdf/LA+30/2025+vp?lang=fi) in the parliamentary record: it would amend section 5 of the Act on the Public Disclosure and Confidentiality of Tax Information, with the stated aim of improving taxpayers' privacy. It was referred to the Legal Affairs Committee. Sammallahti says it found little support, because "privacy and freedoms are not very much in demand" in parliament.

Every year, he says, the media and trade-union economists justify the publicity of tax data with democracy and transparency, yet the headlines are about how to check your neighbour's income and what some celebrity earned. He cites the million-euro income of former prime minister Sanna Marin's company. Miettinen says he is glad that a former Social Democrat prime minister makes money in England, but wonders why Marin also had to assure everyone she pays her taxes gladly. To Miettinen this is a Finnish ritual: earn a little money and you must apologise.

## 2. Happy taxpayers and voluntary taxes

The two discuss entrepreneurs who publicly ask for higher taxes on themselves. Miettinen's example is the owner of the army-surplus retailer Varusteleka, whom he accuses of insulting his own customers. Sammallahti says he shops at Varusteleka regularly and does not make purchase decisions on the owner's opinions. Making money in business is a fine thing, he says, but you should not saw off the rungs of the ladder for those coming after you, and every entrepreneur praising taxes does the same tax optimisation in the books as everyone else.

Miettinen mentions a report that voluntary payments to the State Treasury in the past year came to just over €20,000. We did not check that figure. His conclusion: if you think taxation is so wonderful, pay more. An entrepreneur who becomes the "left's pet", he says, loses the respect of serious business people and still does not win the left's. Sammallahti agrees that it is perfectly fine to say you get value for your taxes, but uncritical praise of taxes pulls the rug from under other entrepreneurs.

## 3. The tax-trick myth and unrealised gains

Miettinen takes apart a claim circulating in the media that ordinary people pay close to 50 per cent tax while the rich trick their way down to 20. When you sell a company, he argues, you sell the owner's work, already capitalised in the company. Take, say, 34 per cent tax off the sale and your wealth shrinks; on paper you had more before tax. If the deal is paid in shares, you may owe tax without receiving cash. So the Envy Day list, in his view, is largely a list of people whose wealth fell that year. Sammallahti says that is one way to see it.

Sammallahti's main target is the claim that not taxing unrealised gains amounts to tax avoidance. He compares it to accusing a homeowner of evading tax because the rise in the house's value was not taxed every year. Such headlines live on as truths, he says, and feed the left's millionaire-tax ideas, which are justified with billionaires' fortunes but would reach millionaires.

He also raises the left's relationship with money and status, citing an old interview with the coach Jari Sarasvuo and the Left Alliance's Paavo Arhinmäki's taste for expensive watches. He would like to ask left-wing politicians why it is bad that a Finn is doing well and why it matters more that the state is as large as possible. Historical experiments, he says, show that real socialism increases economic inequality rather than reducing it.

## 4. Public spending of €160 billion: cuts or tax rises

Miettinen says public spending is close to 60 per cent of GDP and rose above €160 billion in revised accounts; the roughly €15 billion of savings needed is only about a tenth of that. According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, general-government expenditure was about [57.5 per cent of GDP in 2025](https://www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/suomen-julkiset-menot-paisuneet-rajusti-nama-erat-ovat-kasvaneet-eniten/), and the general-government deficit was [€10.7 billion, or 3.8 per cent of GDP](https://stat.fi/fi/julkaisu/cmfp84qj49mre08uri1wltj3s). We did not check Miettinen's €160 billion total separately, but it is consistent with that spending ratio.

Sammallahti says Finland already taxes at record levels, with some of the world's largest income transfers and smallest income gaps, and still most parties would solve the debt problem by raising taxes. His party, he says, is so far the only one whose adjustment programme does everything through spending cuts. Miettinen lists the left's demands: bring back the solidarity tax, return corporate tax to 20 per cent and raise the top marginal rates again, even though tax revenue has risen because people do more "without rucksacks on their backs". A right-wing win, he argues, is vital in the AI era: as AI replaces people in the private sector, the same has to happen in the public sector.

## 5. The National Coalition's year of stumbles

Miettinen asks bluntly why the Finns Party is rising and the National Coalition falling. In his view the Finns Party has a sharper message on cuts (development aid, NGOs, bureaucracy, the third sector), while the NCP seems stuck on cutting social security. Sammallahti gives his own analysis. The downward curve began, he says, with the early-year budget talks and inheritance tax: the NCP wants to abolish it, and the Finns Party opposed it through Riikka Purra. Then came the STEA grant criteria, where his party "reacted a bit clumsily" but did not oppose cuts, followed by Garden Helsinki, Valmet Automotive and other rows. Each was minor, but together they formed an image problem the party is now captive to.

Sammallahti backs Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's line on the Puheenaihe podcast that the party must talk more about its core. The government, he says, has delivered "the most NCP government programme in Finnish history": taxes cut by almost €3 billion, the biggest labour-market reforms since the 1940s' "January engagement", markets and public purchase-invoice data opened in health and social care, a stricter immigration policy and a deregulation programme. He puts the tax cuts at €2.5–2.6 billion at one point and almost €3 billion at another; we did not check either. His party has undeniably failed at communication, he says, but the message will sharpen once the machine switches to election mode. Some coalition partners, he says, have campaigned all year while the prime minister's party has had to carry the programme to the finish.

## 6. The right-wing majority at risk

The biggest problem, in Sammallahti's view, is not NCP versus Finns Party. Voters move between the Centre, the Social Democrats, the Finns Party and the NCP, with smaller flows in every direction. The problem is that even a coalition of the NCP, the Finns Party, the Centre, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats would not reach a majority on current polling. That would give the left the same opening it had under Marin. He does not trust "safe-deposit agreements" made in advance, because ministerial portfolios come first for many in negotiations.

Most of the NCP's lost support, he says, has gone to the sidelines rather than to other parties; he recalls a figure of over 60 per cent of those who have withdrawn support. We did not check it. So the party should go after non-voters instead of fighting the Finns Party for the same voters. Whether the NCP or the Finns Party finishes second matters little if the Social Democrats can form a majority with a left coalition. Miettinen brings up the Centre, some of whose members are again floating a "blank ballot", and says this term would have achieved more had the Centre been in government instead of the Swedish People's Party, or instead of both it and the Christian Democrats.

Miettinen calls Wille Rydman's argument tactically sharp: if the Social Democrats shut the door only on the Finns Party, the Finns Party is the one party certain not to govern with them. Sammallahti says scaremongering about a "blue-red" NCP–SDP coalition is an old tactic, used by the Centre before the Finns Party's rise, and the NCP has not gone blue-red in the last three terms. In game-theory terms it would be absurd to slam doors: if the left has painted the Finns Party into a corner, the other right-wing parties should not paint themselves into other corners. His party, he says, is the Finns Party's only route into government, because the Swedish People's Party has signalled it will not govern with them again and the Centre is unlikely to be keen after a bruising campaign. Principle is good, but principle that turns into puritanism and keeps you from power does you a disservice.

## 7. Vote for the person, not the party

Miettinen says he has always voted for the person more than the party, and urges voters to study their own constituency in the spirit of the d'Hondt method. Finland's open-list system, where a party leader does not set the order as in Sweden, is worth using. Sammallahti agrees. Every party leader has changed their party dramatically; Riikka Purra's Finns Party, he says, is a different party on economics from Timo Soini's. From his own party he names Noora Fagerström's entrepreneurship programme, Martin Paasi's AI report, Atte Kaleva's immigration report and his own funded-pension initiative. The line "you vote for one candidate but get another" is understandable, he says, but intellectually dishonest, and it makes people passive. Parties are "crap brands" that everyone finds something to dislike in, but politicians are personal brands who draw people to parties.

## 8. The United States, Spain and France

Miettinen jumps to the US midterms. Beyond Trump, he says, Republicans lost because many were too embarrassed to say out loud that they supported the party, and he finds it striking that they lost Texas. According to local reporting, Democrat James Talarico [won the Texas US Senate race](https://www.kut.org/texas/2026-11-03/texas-nov-midterm-statewide-election-results) on 3 November 2026, and Democrats also took the governorship, while Republicans kept the state senate.

On Spain, Miettinen points to the Ceuta crisis and a general strike, noting that Social Democrat leader Antti Lindtman has praised Spain as a model. Sammallahti recalls how destructive political strikes were in Finland. His example is all exports halting because a Russian ship's crew member had allegedly threatened a Finnish port's shop steward. We did not check that case.

In France, Miettinen says, a rational voter has to choose Marine Le Pen if the alternative is the hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Sammallahti says Le Pen is an economic "out-and-out socialist" promising a lower pension age, more benefits and a millionaire tax, which the Finnish nationalists he says celebrate her overlook. In economic policy, he says, Europe faces dangers greater even than Russia.

## 9. AI, Luddism and data centres

Miettinen says AI is making the private sector more efficient fast, while in the public sector €160 billion "just keeps turning". When AI will not justify the current system, he says, some in the public sector turn against it and become Luddites. In the US, he says, a TikTok wave calling for data centres to be burned is spreading, and it is coming to Finland.

Sammallahti accepts that data centres raise open questions, such as whether there is enough electricity and what happens to its price, but his answer is to build more generation. The media, he says, has tried to make a scandal of Prime Minister Orpo negotiating with Google. Google [announced in September 2026](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-pledges-13bn-investment-in-digital-infrastructure-in-finland/) at least €13 billion of investment in Finland in 2027–2028, in Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos and Vaala, presented at a press conference with Orpo. A prime minister who refused to meet such an investor for fear of a row would be "the worst prime minister ever", Sammallahti says. He concedes that Google "messed up" at Muhos and says parliament heard data-centre companies that same week. Miettinen discloses his Slush media pass, a Google dinner invitation and his Alphabet shares.

Miettinen compares this to the row over former prime minister Juha Sipilä. As he remembers it, a journalist from the public broadcaster Yle asked Sipilä about relatives' holdings in a mining subcontractor. The case, in 2016, concerned Terrafame and Katera Steel, a company owned by Sipilä's relatives, not Talvivaara as Miettinen says. Sipilä, he says, froze after the row. On Garden Helsinki, Sammallahti says it could have been handled with more tact and the plug should have been pulled once pressure messages arrived. Still, he asks listeners whether they would grant a conditional €30 million subsidy that could unlock a €400–500 million construction project. Tampere's arena went through on the same basis, he says, and opposition to the subsidy is partly Helsinki versus the rest of Finland.

On Valmet Automotive, Miettinen says he once negotiated with its Chinese owners himself. Sammallahti says that, at bottom, a modern factory was bought out of Chinese hands and now produces defence equipment for Europe. According to the government, the state and Pontos bought Chinese CATL's [20.6 per cent stake](https://valtioneuvosto.fi/-/1410877/valtiosta-tulee-valmet-automotiven-enemmistoomistaja-tytaryhtio-ioncor-eriytetaan-finnish-minerals-groupin-omistukseen) in September 2025, leaving the state with 79 per cent. The Uusikaupunki plant also builds Patria 6×6 armoured vehicles. The deal has been criticised, including in a parliamentary written question, but Sammallahti says it would be a miscarriage of justice if Orpo fell over it.

## 10. Finnish negativity and ownership

In Finland, Sammallahti says, people find the downside of everything. When icebreaker deals were negotiated with the US, critics said the Americans would steal Finnish know-how. When a bioproduct mill was built in Kemi, critics feared every forest would be felled. Miettinen says the link between ownership and employment has been lost: companies cannot hire without owners, and foreign ownership leaves Finland with a subsidiary economy. His example is Suunto, which he says was laying off Finns as the episode was recorded. We did not check that. Sammallahti wants Finland's national perspective widened: there are over 8 billion people in the world, and the global economy is "our oyster".

Miettinen relays a point from Emmiliina Kujanpää of the business think tank EVA: discussing taxes with AI in Finnish is skewed, because the Finnish-language material is full of texts praising taxes. He suggests listeners hold a few sparring sessions with a paid AI in English on why a market economy matters and why the public sector cannot replace it. Sammallahti's example is the new fee-paying route into adult higher education. The left and the Centre claim it will let people buy degrees, even though students must still demonstrate what they have learned. He says he heckled in a plenary session that Centre MPs might be shocked to learn televisions can be bought in shops rather than from a state cathode-ray-tube factory.

## 11. France's deficit and Finland's used-up buffer

Miettinen puts France's budget deficit at 5.1 per cent of GDP and says a left-wing government would push it towards Greek levels. The French government's September 2026 estimate put the 2025 deficit at [5.1 per cent, rising to 5.4 per cent in 2026](https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/five-reasons-why-french-growth-will-help-public-debt-to-stabilise-202609291035), with debt around 119 per cent of GDP. Sammallahti says the Greek crisis was still manageable, but if a core economy like France goes down, Finland follows fast. Finland, he says, is "one black swan away" from catastrophe, because its buffer has been spent. Sweden can afford ten heavy deficit years, and Norway can live off its fund practically forever.

Miettinen turns to competitiveness and the tax wedge. When AI competes with a smart human, AI's tax rate is at most 25.5 per cent VAT, and nothing if you run it on your own hardware, while human work carries up to 50 per cent on top. So he calls it a delusion that restoring the solidarity tax and squeezing productive people harder would bring growth. Sammallahti counts the cut in top marginal rates and the stock-option tax reform as defensive wins. The option reform, he says, "we got now", and without it attracting unicorn builders would be nearly impossible. The government set out a change to the timing of option taxation in its spring 2026 public finance plan; we did not check the final parliamentary decision. A long-term unemployed person will not build a unicorn, he says, so top talent is needed precisely to create the companies that may one day hire the unemployed too.

## 12. AI is democratising

Finally, Miettinen describes how ordinary Finns, such as installers, haulage entrepreneurs and estate agents, have taken to AI and are automating things like their bookkeeping. To him this is a democratising wave, and real-world AI is only beginning. Sammallahti compares the moment to the early 1990s, when as a child he first surfed the web in a friend's living room. ChatGPT's breakthrough, he says, is only three or four years old. Miettinen recalls talking about GPT-3 years ago (episode [AI, GPT-3 and Negotiation, Negotiator 98](https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep98-tekoaly-gpt-3-neuvottelu-tuomas-rasila/), 2021).

The last chapter describes a Grok bot sorting an email inbox and giving quick background on a company during a visit. The aim is to move cognitive load to the machine and keep decision-making for yourself. The captions do not show with certainty which speaker says this. Sorting email by hand, the speaker says, now feels like a "terrible waste of human work".

The conversation continues in the members' episode [Tere Sammallahti's AI Journey (Inner Circle 172)](https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/sisapiiri172-tere-sammallahden-tekoalymatka/), where Sammallahti explains how a non-coding MP builds his own apps. Miettinen ends by asking viewers to suggest new current-affairs panellists in the spirit of Ivan Puopolo's Viikon viisasteluklubi ("weekly smart-alecs' club").

## Key takeaways

- **Tax-data publicity is a political choice.** Sammallahti's bill LA 30/2025 vp would keep research data but remove names, an alternative to a release day he sees as voyeurism.
- **Capital-gains tax shrinks wealth.** Miettinen argues the Envy Day list often shows people whose wealth fell through tax on a company sale. It does not show who got richer.
- **The right's problem is the size of the bloc.** Sammallahti says it hardly matters which right-wing party comes second if together they end up in the minority.
- **Finland's buffer is spent.** With France's deficit above 5 per cent and debt around 119 per cent of GDP, the speakers see Finland's narrow room for manoeuvre as a bigger risk than public debate admits.
- **AI sharpens the tax wedge.** When machines compete with human work almost tax-free, high taxes on labour become an even bigger competitive handicap, in the speakers' view.

## Chapters

- **[00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=0s)** Episode highlights
- **[01:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=96s)** Tere Sammallahti and Envy Day
- **[02:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=142s)** A bill on the privacy of tax data
- **[03:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=205s)** Sanna Marin and the ritual of apology
- **[04:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=297s)** Varusteleka and the happy taxpayers
- **[06:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=388s)** Voluntary taxes to the State Treasury
- **[07:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=470s)** The tax-trick myth and taxing a company sale
- **[09:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=565s)** Unrealised gains and the millionaire tax
- **[11:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=703s)** The left's relationship with money and status
- **[13:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=814s)** Public spending of 160 billion
- **[15:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=932s)** Cuts versus tax rises
- **[16:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=993s)** Why the Finns Party rises and the National Coalition falls
- **[17:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1060s)** The National Coalition's year of stumbles
- **[19:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1194s)** The most National Coalition government programme in history
- **[21:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1300s)** The right-wing bloc's majority at risk
- **[23:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1385s)** The Centre and the blank ballot
- **[25:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1500s)** Fear of a blue-red coalition and game theory
- **[27:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1648s)** The Finns Party painted into a corner
- **[29:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1754s)** Vote for the person, not the party
- **[33:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=1991s)** The US midterms and the Republicans
- **[34:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2040s)** Spain, Ceuta and political strikes
- **[35:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2120s)** The French elections and the threat of a debt crisis
- **[36:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2170s)** AI and public-sector Luddism
- **[37:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2273s)** Orpo, Google and data centres
- **[39:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2390s)** Sipilä's media storm and Garden Helsinki
- **[41:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2497s)** Valmet Automotive and the Chinese
- **[44:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2685s)** Finnish negativity towards investment
- **[45:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2750s)** Ownership, Suunto and jobs
- **[48:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2900s)** Finnish-language AI and the tax debate
- **[49:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=2970s)** Buying education with your own money
- **[51:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=3066s)** France's budget deficit and Finland's used-up buffer
- **[53:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=3221s)** The tax wedge and AI's competitive edge
- **[55:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=3345s)** Stock-option taxation and top talent
- **[57:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=3440s)** AI democratises for ordinary entrepreneurs
- **[59:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=3565s)** Grok and offloading cognitive load
- **[1:00:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyptK3v12o&t=3611s)** Closing and the Inner Circle

**Episode details.** Neuvottelija (Negotiator) 422, published 14 November 2026, length 1:01:39, YouTube ID `qcyptK3v12o`. Guest [Tere Sammallahti](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/tere-sammallahti/), host Sami Miettinen. The article is based on the host's own Finnish captions and the 36 chapters the publisher lists; quotations are translated for sense.

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