Kommentar: Jetzt auch noch Steuererhöhungspartei: Schlechter hätte die Union nicht verhandeln können
Die Union stimmt höheren Steuern für Top-Verdienern zu – und die übrigen Steuerzahler bekommen nichtmal die inflationsbedingten Erhöhungen ausgeglichen. Kanzler Merz droht ein heißer Herbst.
The Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, a massive concrete structure, once housed the Reichsluftfahrtministerium. Now, it serves as the Bundesfinanzministerium. Its thick walls make it unlikely that the recent laughter from within escaped outside. This provides ample reason for Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) to be frustrated. After the debt package, the Union has, for the second time, outmaneuvered the SPD in tax and budget policies.
Instead of significantly relieving taxpayers as initially announced, the relief measures taken in the coalition committee are laughably small, as shown by the new draft legislation from the Finance Ministry. Allegations that the Union is shrinking relief measures through tricks are merely a cheap tactic to divert attention from their own failures.
Klingbeil is merely doing what he agreed to do with the Union and SPD. He cannot be faulted. Rather, the Union should be held accountable for seriously endorsing this "tax reform."
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