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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8719705
Opinion | Germany Needs Something New. Instead It’s Getting This Guy.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8719705
Opinion | Germany Needs Something New. Instead It’s Getting This Guy.
This guy is short-fused, greedy, power-hungry asshat with a long career as a lobbyist. A guy who made his campaign all about “criminal foreigners”. A guy who blocked new debt for the past two years, who campaigned on “no new state debt!!” until exactly the election day, Feb 23, and who’s now trying to get sign-off on €900bn of new debt. A guy who campaigned against heat pumps and climate legislation, but who it appears will only stop heat pump subsidies for households, but not remove the climate-friendly heating mandate, thus sticking it to the people, presumably to later blame it on the Greens. A guy who pro-forma distances himself from Trump or the Afd but who gives the Trumpists in his own party a platform and who copies many the far-right talking points and tactics.
To add onto this, he left politics because his party didn’t like him for his further right beliefs - then he goes and works for Black Rock and makes millions (a company that I’ve never heard or read about in a good light) only to come back to politics and make one of his highest priorities lowering corporate tax rates. It’s, to me, a clear quid-pro-quo isn’t it? Make me rich, I’ll get back into politics, help me get reelected, and then I’ll lower your taxes.
There’s no defensible political analysis that says lowering corporate taxes leads to things we should care about, it’s just giving money to the rich. If the goal is for those companies to invest in themselves, hire more people, and pay those people better wages, then why not give the money to the people instead who will then buy more things from corporations they like and you get the same effect.
Except instead of the policy be “give money to the rich and hope it trickles down (historically it doesn’t)” it becomes “give money to the workers and it’ll trickle up”.
He is bought and paid for by corporate interests, just like every other conservative, and people should stop falling for it. Tax the rich more, give workers more money and power, reinvest in public services and watch your country thrive.