Higher Taxes, More Political Repression, no Solutions
The Federal Republic has boarded an express train to Green socialist purgatory. There is no other way to describe what is happening here.
First, we had the shocking debt brake overhaul, via which the CDU and the SPD signaled their bizarre wish to reprise the hated politics of the traffic light, only in more extreme form. Among other things, this overhaul involved amending the constitution to include the goal of “climate neutrality” by 2045. Leading Greens are now hoping this amendment will open the way for litigious environmentalists to compel the further deindustrialisation of Germany over the coming two decades.
Then, as if to confirm the ongoing DDRification of the Federal Republic, the alleged Stasi collaborator and former leader of the Socialist Unity Party, Gregor Grysi, delivered the inaugural address to the twenty-first Bundestag.
Now the preliminary results of the coalition negotiations between the CDU, the Bavarian CSU and the Social Democrats are making their way into the press, and they are really a thing to behold.
In the run-up to the elections, all kinds of people told me that the CDU would take charge and we’d see a correction to the right. The worst abuses of the traffic light would be put to bed, Green politics would go on the back burner and the government would begin to emphasise economic policy and migration restriction. It wouldn’t be totally satisfying, these people told me, but things would get better.
It is now safe to say that these people were retards and that they were totally and laughably wrong. What awaits us is not a political correction but rather the traffic light on speed. We are going to get an absolute witch’s brew of tax hikes, deficit spending, industrial subsidies and political repression. If even half of these plans are realised, the coming government is going to make its predecessor look like a beacon of liberal freedom and fiscal responsibility. Here I can only provide a selection of all the proposals, as every five minutes a journalist stumbles upon another steaming turd.
To begin with, the various negotiating subcommittees are already aspiring to spend half a trillion Euros – the total value of the “special infrastructure fund” established by the debt brake overhaul last week. The grave political differences between the CDU and the SPD are to be papered over with vast quantities of money. It makes sense, then, that the SPD should be gearing up to push very hard to raise taxes on “the rich” – a group of people that in Social Democracy Land includes a great part of the middle class. The SPD want to raise the top tax rate from 42% to 47% and the capital gains tax from 25% to 30%. They want to introduce a confiscatory wealth tax and they want to broaden real-estate taxes. The Union parties will probably have to give in on a great part of this programme, because, while German polit
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