Why don't construction prices go down?

I don’t know in which Germany you live, but for me it doesn’t look quite so rosy. I don’t want to send my child to an antisocial and rundown regular school.

I don’t know which Germany you live in, but regular schools are not inherently rundown.

If you raise a disabled child today, which is associated with considerable costs, the oh-so-social state gives you a tax allowance of only 80 euros per month, which corresponds to a tax saving of 16 euros per month. That is antisocial.

- Care allowance - One-time support for remodeling measures - Help for care for households with low incomes - Lump sum between €384 and a maximum of €7,400 per year – not just simply €960 p.a. - School assistance - Sick child allowance regardless of the child’s age (even after the 12th year of life) - Subsidized loan etc. By the way, all financed from tax money. If you don’t pay taxes because you work undeclared, the benefits cannot be increased either.

Why shouldn’t the craftsman work undeclared?

Current press release WDR: The customs authority was particularly active last year in the construction industry, in hotels and restaurants, or with cleaning companies. In doing so, officials uncovered damage of 615 million euros in unpaid social security contributions, taxes, and wages. The prison sentences handed down as a result of the investigations add up to a total of 990 years. THIS is only the known tip due to discovered undeclared work. The actual damage is much higher – the value of undeclared work performed in Germany in 2023 is estimated at €481 billion. If this work were honestly performed, remunerated, and taxed (including social contributions), society would be better off. There are quite a lot of workers involved...

The painter or heating technician who builds your house goes home with 18 euros gross per hour. That is then 10 euros net or somewhere around 1800 - 2000 euros per month.

A prime example that the state is not to blame for everything. The trades have earned generously for years. I am well aware that most of it has basically stuck at the top. But can no state be responsible for that? The masters and owners finally have to pass on what landed (illegally) in their pockets. I can say, here with us, all craft business owners are still doing very well. You can tell by the heights of the offer sums, by the number and type of cars driven privately - and by availabilities. But that is typical for Germany: people get kicked downwards (for example by evading taxes), instead of complaining to those where the money arrived in a more or "less" fair way. The state here, the state there. It is always blamed when something does not work. And as a punishment, you don’t pay taxes? Because you have to pay debt money for a private school?

But don’t worry, the tide will turn soon.

Sure. Some have been hoping for that for years. But don’t worry, that remains a hope of revolutionaries, Reich citizens, and preppers. Instead, get involved locally, politically and socially. That makes a difference! However, with the missing billions resulting from undeclared work, you also won’t build better schools...

It has nothing to do with Reichsbürger. It is proven that our children have massive educational gaps. 80 percent of children at the end of 4th grade can neither read, write, nor do arithmetic properly. Pisa sends its regards. Nobody needs to argue this away here.
I don’t want to start talking about the condition of our schools here.

The trades have earned gold for years.

Correct. The trades. But who exactly are the trades? The shoemaker who repairs your shoe for 10 euros an hour or the tailor who alters a dress for 12 euros? Or the electrician who chases your walls for 18 euros? Maybe also the small craft businesses that don’t get their money from the general contractor. Probably also the 3000 bakeries that have permanently closed their doors in the last 10 years.

The actual damage is much higher - the value of undeclared work performed in Germany is estimated at €481 billion for 2023.

Less would clearly be more. Maybe someone will someday get the idea to reduce taxes and burdens instead of constantly increasing them.
Although the damage caused by undeclared work is probably peanuts compared to the lost taxes from CumEx with the involvement of Olaf Scholz.

- Care allowance
- One-time support for renovation measures
- Assistance for care for households with low incomes
- Lump sum between €384 and a maximum of €7,400 per year – not just simply €960 p.a.
- School assistance
- Child sick pay regardless of the child’s age (thus even after the 12th year of life)
- Promotional loans

You are completely uninformed. Depending on the care level, you get about 350 euros of child care allowance.
To illustrate how great everything is here: There is a special school 10 km away, but in another federal state.
Since the child is not allowed to be transported to a school in another federal state, it would have to go to a school 70 km away, which would mean 2 x 1.5 hours of travel every day. So I drive our child myself early every day and back in the evening.

I cannot impose the burden of the trip on the child. Sorry. For that, I get 16 euros of monthly tax relief. Just for that alone, I need 200 euros for fuel costs. I don’t want to complain and I do it gladly. It’s like a life mission.
Still, what the state is doing with our children here is antisocial. There is money for every crap. 60 percent of teachers work part-time and due to teacher shortages we only have classes on 4 days.

But as I said, some have long since lost touch with reality here. Sorry.

Why shouldn't the craftsman work illegally? But don’t worry, the tide will turn soon.

I feel sick. You blue shirts want to do everything for Germany and at the same time want to cheat Germany. Your like-minded comrades used to call that a "public menace," didn’t they? What does Mrs. Weidel say about the topic of illegal work?

Did you perhaps inform yourself just as well on this topic as on "taxes" and tax classes? We receive about €600 in care allowance, plenty of tax reliefs (about €12,000), support in the household, at school, etc... But yes, unfortunately you have to take care of things yourself and try to find out what kind of support is available. Since we have free school choice, we can choose a school and either get travel expenses reimbursed or the district takes care of transportation (currently unfortunately difficult with individual transport). By the way, also to another federal state! You just have to put in the effort and argue accordingly. And sometimes also annoy the caseworkers a bit so that applications are processed promptly. It is exhausting, but overall we cannot complain about the support. Oh yes, therapies are of course also paid for by the health insurance.

It has been proven that children have massive educational gaps. 80 percent of children at the end of 4th grade cannot properly read, write, or do arithmetic.

And why? Because their parents also cannot do it properly. But they attended the good(?) schools of earlier times. I see every day how much of these performance gaps are dragged along from the parental home. The completely media-altered environment of growing up today finishes off these families.

On the topic of caring for a child: What you describe is the tip of the iceberg of assistance one can access. If you inform yourself about everything and take care of everything yourself. The matter is complicated and no one takes you by the hand without being asked.
There really are many forms of help in Germany – unfortunately not always transparent and almost never simply organized. One could rightly criticize that, if one did not compulsively look elsewhere.
I recommend a counseling center, such a thing exists. Because:

Have you perhaps informed yourself just as well there as on the topic of “taxes” and tax classes?

That feeling is creeping up on me too. Your statements suggest a lot of third-hand knowledge mixed with hearsay. If what you write were generally true, there would be no people who manage it completely differently under the same conditions. But there are. And they live in the same Germany as you, be sure of that.