Saturday 24th July 2021
“Just not the truth”
Baerbock criticizes the Union’s tax plans
The green candidate for Chancellor Baerbock criticizes the Union and FDP for their plans to give tax relief to high-income people in particular. Families or communities that need support, on the other hand, are left in the rain, according to Baerbock. In addition, it is unclear where the money will come from.
The Chancellor candidate of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock, has criticized the tax cut plans of the CDU, CSU and FDP. “If other parties suggest that they could create better schools and hospitals through tax cuts for higher earners, then that is simply not the truth,” said Baerbock of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.
Relieving the burden on top earners means “that we cannot support families who really need it, and municipalities continue to be left in the rain”. Anyone who wants to help in the Corona crisis and in view of the flood disaster “has to say where the money should come from”.
Baerbock told the FAZ that the debt brake had to be supplemented by an investment rule. “Anyone who blocks this is refusing to modernize this country, which is so urgent.” In view of the burdens on federal, state and local budgets, Baerbock said: “I am curious how the other parties will say about their tax plans in view of the disaster situation in Germany in the coming weeks.”
The SPD chairwoman, Saskia Esken, also accused the Union of making unsustainable tax cut promises after the CSU election program was presented. However, she sees particularly strong differences in the plans of the two sister parties. “The massive tax cuts for the rich and companies already planned in the CDU program are inflated by the CSU paper even further, without even hinting at serious financing of the state tasks or even the upcoming investments in the future,” said the SPD leader of the “Augsburger Allgemeine” . Esken accused CDU boss Armin Laschet and CSU boss Markus Söder of major contradictions in their statements about the possibility of tax relief.
Esken: “Söder drives Laschet ahead of him”
“The split between CDU and CSU is noticeably deepening,” said the SPD chairwoman of the newspaper. “The dissatisfaction of the CSU with the joint top candidate and with the joint program was palpable from day one and is obviously growing.”
“Like Friedrich Merz before him, Markus Söder tries to fill the gaps in Laschet’s content with his alternative to the CDU program and outdoes himself in dubious populism,” criticized Esken. “The similarities in the so-called Union of CDU and CSU now seem to have been used up for good,” she added. Söder drove tabs “with his financial political air numbers” in front of him.
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