Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Quick fact check on who is the head of administration (=mayor) in Münster:
Markus Lewe, CDU.

We have this CDU clown around here, local politician and boomer all in one. Regularly complains about the bad, bad traffic light coalition, on topics where the traffic light coalition hasn't even had their hands on the wheel yet. When you ask him who has driven the cart into the wall at the state level for the last 16 years, there's nothing but test pattern noise.

idR. makes the administration on site.

...which in turn is also part of the state.

The regulatory frenzy of those politically responsible is currently increasing more and more.

A few days ago, I wrote here that citizens are being treated like little kindergarten children. But that is just the way it is.

Every day, new subsidy vehicles have to be invented because there are such distortions in the markets that continue to undermine the market. The path to a planned economy has long been paved.

This has nothing to do with populism; it is reality.

Now, for example, when they realize, oh, the industry can no longer afford electricity, they want to subsidize the electricity price for the industry.

Recipients of [Bürgergeld] are to be exempted from the heat pump requirement. Subsidies (subventions) for heating systems. These will certainly make it much more expensive.

Gas and electricity price caps, rent price caps, CO² participation of landlords, extremely complex heating cost statements, compulsory photovoltaic systems in new buildings, ban on wood heating systems, ban on gravel gardens, just to name a few examples.

It just keeps increasing, and one subsidy triggers another somewhere.

And the low interest rates of recent years were also a huge subsidy by central banks, triggered by political influence on them. Today, we can clearly see the distortions this has caused. The inflation spiral is a consequence of this.

Süddeutsche is also getting worse and worse in terms of text quality. Detached single-family houses are being abandoned. Semi-detached houses and terraced houses are still being planned.

Doesn't really make it any better either or

Well, the question is what happens with existing plots, is it still allowed to build a new single-family house on them or is there also a mandatory requirement for densification? (Actually, you can't do that...)

We have one of those CDU clowns here in the area, local politician and boomer all in one. He regularly complains about the evil, evil traffic light coalition on issues where the traffic light coalition hasn't even had their hands on the steering wheel yet. When you ask him who drove the cart into the wall on the state level over the past 16 years, nothing but test pattern noise comes back.

Maybe we can agree not to call other people clowns in their absence... that should be obvious for educated academics...

Local politics often have nothing at all to do with the federal level. Even Stephan Weil, SPD, criticizes the federal government for decisions regarding refugee policy. Because he represents the state, not the federal republic as a whole.

And with the erratic course the Ministry of Economic Affairs is currently taking and the pipe dreams about heat pumps, for which there are not even sufficient electricity generation capacities in winter... and certainly no CO2-neutral ones that would show 65% renewable energies...
Even I, as a Green voter, can only shake my head.
The middle class is already packing its bags, BASF is also about to jump to the USA. Viessmann was sold... companies don't do that because they find Germany such a great production location.

Even I as a Green voter can’t stand it

:'(

The middle class is already packing its bags, BASF is also on the move to the USA. has been sold... companies don’t do that because they like Germany so much as a production location.

Or depending on the company’s situation, to our eastern neighbors... But there are also companies that have their administrations “under control” - If the requested approvals are not granted, they threaten with relocation...