It's a pity, but here again I have to note that Germany is increasingly falling into a society of envy.
1. I am fully aware that it concerns taxable income.
2. An open question: What do people think who claim that once you exceed this income threshold, you live in luxury?
Does the employer give me the money?
3. The money is earned. Among other things, through 24/7 availability, countless overtime hours, business trips, etc.
4. Have you ever thought about the fact that the state canceled pension credits for studying a few years ago?
Just here, about 5 years’ worth of pension payments have to be made up.
5. Cold progression: Those who earn a lot also pay more taxes. I, with an income that belongs to the top 10 percent in Germany, contribute around 50 percent of the total income tax in Germany. Have you ever thought about what remains of the high taxable income?
We would be happy if everyone had the same, but lower tax rate.
6. Those who earn a lot are involved everywhere. Example daycare: income grading. While 50 percent of the parents in our daycare pay no fees, we pay 387 euros for one child. The second then kindly costs only 50 percent of the fee.
We would be happy if simply everyone had to pay and the fee would be reduced...
7. On the political topic: It is certainly not an "ego trip" by Mr. Seehofer. The applicable law, which was suspended in 2015 without any basis, is to be restored.
We are discussing here a few billion for the Baukindergeld, yet family reunification etc. are being approved in return.
If the do-gooders in this forum are in favor, they can gladly stop building their house and personally take care of these people. The majority of the population no longer wants it.
And regarding my sentence that you are upset about: Since September 2015 this issue has dominated politics and the media. Here we see again how other topics fall by the wayside.
8. We are doing well, we can live well. Every working person is important in our system. Engineers can do nothing without craftsmen etc. Nurses are underpaid, etc.
Nevertheless, it is unbearable that people with lower wages dare to claim that Baukindergeld is not needed.
Baukindergeld is a luxury problem for EVERYONE. No one will build a house because of the several thousand euros and would not have done so before.
It is also unfairly regulated. Nevertheless, one must take personal benefit from it.