Helsingin Sanomat election machine
I threw Helsingin Sanomat’s election machine (from the Uusimaa electoral district) into a machine translator, here’s what it spit out. Use at own risk. When you’re done, be sure to post your results in the comments section!
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1. What mind are you from the following claim: On Finland’s labour market one should take, to learn Tanskanen, where the dismissal is easier but level of the unemployment benefits higher.
The totally same mind.
The nearly same mind.
Rather separate mind.
Totally separate mind.
2. Should Finland persuade foreign labour?
Yes.
The work permits must be more flexibly than at present granted when necessary but the large-scale migration should not be striven for.
The present practice is good.
One not but the present practice should be tightened.
3. What mind are you from the following claim: The Globalisation and the free trade have been to the welfare of the Finns mainly an advantage.
The totally same mind.
The nearly same mind.
Rather separate mind.
Totally separate mind.
4. The alcohol taxation was lightened in 2004. How should the alcohol taxation be developed?
The tax should be still lightened.
The present level is suitable.
The taxation of strong drinks should be tightened.
The taxation of alcohol should be tightened all over.
5. The general value-added tax is 22 per cent in Finland. To the food the adjusted value-added tax is lower, in other words 17 per cent.
The value-added tax of the food should be raised.
The present level is good.
The value-added tax of the food should be lowered.
6. The salary taxation would come in the following electoral period
One lightens straightforwardly.
One lightens a little.
One keeps as it is now.
One tightens.
7. The inheritance taxation would come in the following electoral period
One tightens.
One keeps as it is now.
One lightens only in connection with the transfers of farms to descendants of companies.
One lightens all over.
The inheritance tax should be totally removed.
8. The child benefit is 100 euros per month nowadays from the first child and the addition rises step by step so that beginning from the fifth child it will be 172 euros per month. What should be done to the child benefits?
One raises from all the children in the relations which are in accordance with the present system.
One raises emphasising v{h{lapsinen families.
One raises emphasising monilapsinen families.
The raisings are not necessary.
9. The voluntary retirement pension insurances are supported nowadays with the tax advantage. Should the tax
advantage of the pension saving be extended also to other saving ways such as shares, funds and deposits?
Yes.
One not.
Even the present tax advantage must be removed.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
10. In Finland the rise in price of the energy and the options of noted Fortum in the stock exchange cable have been discussed. What mind are you from the following claim: A new state energy company should be founded in Finland?
The totally same mind.
The nearly same mind.
Rather separate mind.
Totally separate mind.
11. With what kind of methods should the growth of the energy consumption be checked in Finland?
The taxation of electricity and fuels should be noticeably tightened.
The taxation of electricity and fuels could be tightened a little but the consumption of the main stress in the control of the growth should be in the education.
The saving should be striven for only with the methods of the education.
The growth of the energy consumption does not need to be checked.
12. What mind are you from the following claim: The sixth nuclear power plant should be built in Finland.
The totally same mind.
The nearly same mind.
Rather separate mind.
Totally separate mind.
13. What kind of line should Finland advocate in the climate policy of the EU?
EU.n should be a pioneer and should restrict the emissions of gases, even others as USA and China would not be to it yet willing.
The emissions must be globally reduced but EU should not commit itself to the reductions more than other countries.
It at least is not yet topical to reduce the emissions of gases.
14. In Finland 220 –250 is a wolf at the moment. There is a number
Too small.
Suitable.
Too big.
SEXUAL EQUALITY
15. Should an adoption right be allowed to gay pairs and lesbian pairs which live in a registered pair relation?
Yes, the same rights as being in the marriage should be allowed to them.
Internal adoption of the family in which one of the spouses can adopt its partner the child should allow.
An adoption should not be allowed to the ones the same sex.
DIGI-TV
16. In Finland it has been decided that the analogous television broadcasts end 31.8.2007. Would the decision to break and to give the extra time to analogous transmissions come?
Yes.
One not.
Weighting coefficient
SAFETY AND INTERNATIONAL MATTERS
17. What mind are you from the following claim: The authority of the police should be increased to repel crime and to
increase general safety.
The totally same mind.
The nearly same mind.
Rather separate mind.
Totally separate mind.
18. How should Finland’s defence be arranged?
On extension to NATO and by giving up general liability to military service.
On extension to NATO and by retaining general liability to military service.
To stay outside NATO and by retaining general liability to military service.
To stay outside NATO and by giving up general liability to military service.
19. Would Turkey become the member of the EU, it will take if it fills the
conditions of the membership?
Yes.
One not.
20. How would you like to check the president’s prerogatives?
The president’s foreign-policy power should be reduced for the ##government##.
The president should lead the foreign policy also only in the cooperation with the ##government## but to participate in the summit meetings of the EU still not.
The president’s prerogatives have to be retained as they are now.
The president’s prerogatives should be increased from the present one.
STUDYING
21. In Finland the university studying is free. How should one act henceforth?
The university education has to be free also in the future.
To the students of the EU external countries a term fee should be adjusted.
A term fee should be adjusted to the universities to everybody.
22. How would the students’ livelihood come primarily support in the future?
To raise the study grant.
To encourage students to finance its study with the study loan more than at present.
To encourage more students than before working in addition to the studies by raising the income limit about which student can earn his study grant without losing.
MUNICIPALITIES AND MUNICIPAL SERVICES
23. In Finland a municipality reform is going on. One objective is to reduce the number of the municipalities from the present 416. What would be the suitable number of the municipalities?
About 400 municipalities.
About 300 municipalities.
About 200 municipalities.
About 100 municipalities.
24. What is the best method to secure the citizens’ municipal services?
The country must give the municipalities more money.
The municipalities should cover the need for the extra finance by tightening taxation or by raising
customer payments.
The municipalities should intensify their own production of services.
In the municipalities distinctly more outsourcing services than at present should be utilised.
25. The restricting of the P{iv{hoito-oikeus has been presented as one alternative when the municipalities look for the means to keep the growth of social security expenditures in the discipline. How do you adopt an attitude to the thought?
The children’s p{iv{hoito-oikeus must not be restricted.
The P{iv{hoito-oikeus has to be restricted if one of the parents is at home.
To every one of the subjective so-called p{iv{hoito-oikeus which belongs automatically one should give up.
26. What mind are you from the following claim: Patient payments of the nursing one should scale according to the income level.
The totally same mind.
The nearly same mind.
Rather separate mind.
Totally separate mind.
GOVERNMENT BASE
27. The government will probably only get a majority behind him in the parliament if two of the three biggest parties are along in it. What would be the most suitable combination if the election results allowed?
SDP and National Coalition Party.
Exchange and SDP.
National Coalition Party and exchange Painokerroin
