Comment: Now also a party that increases taxes: The Union couldn't have negotiated worse

The Detlev-Rohwedder-House is a monumental reinforced concrete building, it once housed the Reich Aviation Ministry, and its walls are correspondingly thick. It is therefore not reported whether, for a few weeks, loud laughter has been coming from the house, which today houses the Federal Ministry of Finance. Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) would certainly have good reason to smile.

After the debt package, the Union has for the second time allowed itself to be taken advantage of by the SPD in tax and fiscal policy. Instead of providing noticeable relief to taxpayers as announced, the relief measures agreed in the coalition committee at the beginning of July are laughably small, as the new draft law from the Ministry of Finance shows.

Read also: This is how (little) you will be relieved by the tax plans of Black-Red The fact that the Union now accuses Klingbeil of trying to shrink relief measures by trickery is, however, just a cheap maneuver to distract from their own failure. Klingbeil is implementing what the Union and SPD have agreed on. He cannot be blamed. The Union can, however, be blamed for seriously supporting this "tax reform".