DThe prime minister candidates from the trade unions and the Social Democratic Party emphasized their different tax policies at the beginning of the hot stage of the election campaign.Coalition Prime Minister Candidate Armin Raschelt Saturday accused the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the left of planning to increase taxes, thereby endangering Germany’s economic growth. “Tax increases are poison,” the CDU boss said at an event organized by Junge Union in Giessen on Saturday. On the other hand, the SPD candidate for prime minister Olaf Scholz (Olaf Scholz) called the tax cuts for particularly high incomes “immoral” when he appeared in Bochum.
Six weeks ago Bundestag election Both top candidates made clear efforts to emphasize differences in content, including taxation and financial policies. “Some people think that people with as much income as me, or even more, need a lot of tax deductions,” the federal finance minister said, alluding to the complete abolition of the solidarity surcharge and further deductions for companies, for example, as called for by the FDP and trade unions. “Not only is there no funding, it is not based on solidarity, and it is immoral,” said the top candidate of the Social Democratic Party.
Spann calls for black zero
On the other hand, Raschelt emphasized that in the post-coronavirus pandemic, the EU strictly refused to increase taxes. “We will do everything we can to ensure that it does not become that way.” On the contrary, the economy needs to be “released” while reducing bureaucracy.
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Starting Monday, voters can request voting documents to be mailed. The union hopes to hold an event with Raschelt, Prime Minister Angela Merkel and CSU boss Marcus Sodd next weekend to begin its official campaign. Lashet talked about “the choice of direction” on Saturday.He accused the Green Party of lying about climate policy and intervening Schultz exist. His predecessor, Wolfgang Schaeuble (CDU), served as Minister of Finance, ensuring a balanced budget and no tax increases. The Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) has previously emphasized the importance of returning to black zero in the federal budget.
Although Laschet and the Alliance believe that economic recovery will lead to tax increases, they throw out Social Democratic Party, The Green Party and the coalition leftists said that it is unrealistic to refuse tax increases while at the same time fighting for investment and balancing the budget.
Schultz does not want to extend the retirement age
Laschet and Scholz also emphasized differences in other political fields. Raschelt said that, for example, in terms of climate policy, people have reached agreement on the goal of achieving a climate-neutral Germany, but it has not yet been achieved. The leaders of the CDU said that the goal must be to keep Germany as an industrialized country and warned against emigrating the steel industry. At the same time, the transition to a carbon dioxide-neutral economy must be buffered by society. The planning process must be simplified. The alternative in the federal election is “red and green bureaucracy” or “more freedom and entrepreneurship,” with alliances as the dominant force in the new government.
Schultz, in turn, accused the league of ignorance of economics. In his first year as prime minister, he will make a realistic definition of electricity demand so that the cement industry, chemical industry and steel industry can invest. Germany is facing the second industrial revolution, so it will be able to operate in a carbon-neutral way in less than 25 years.
In terms of social policy, Scholz emphasized his refusal to further raise the retirement age to over 67. CDU boss Laschet also ruled out the possibility of an increase. The SPD candidate for prime minister hopes to “promote an increase in the minimum wage to 12 euros in my first year as prime minister.” SPD also wants to ensure that 400,000 new apartments are built every year, of which 100,000 are in social housing.
