Aloha_Lars
2024-11-27 08:22:56
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Oh, I see. Speaking of FDP and Linnemann... anyone who can work and refuses a reasonable job should be reduced to zero.
I don’t demand that a 55-year-old unemployed mechanical engineer with knee osteoarthritis carries 40kg bags of cement all day as a construction helper. But he can definitely work as a gatekeeper. Or as a crane/excavator operator on a construction site.
However, I would completely cut benefits for a healthy, fit 20-year-old without vocational training if he refuses 2 or 3 offers as a construction helper.
In any case, I don’t spend months every year "on investment" and in hotels worldwide to finance a social hammock for others who could work.
By the way, I have been voting green for 15 years... but on this point, the CDU and FDP are right. We can no longer afford this.
It’s a shame that CDU/FDP propaganda apparently works.
The discussion is a complete smokescreen meant to distract from actual problems. Your problem: You look and kick downwards. You should have your gaze upwards.
Citizens’ money work refusers:
“Statistically recorded, however, is the reduction reason ‘refusal to take up or continue work, training, measure or a subsidized employment,’ which also includes further training and qualifications. It turns out that in the first eleven months of 2023, there were a total of 13,838 cases.” Source Tagesschau
Looking upwards:
“Cum-ex deals enabled tax refunds even though the taxes had not been paid beforehand. About 12 billion euros have thus been lost to the German state through such tax dealings.” Source NDR
“At least ten billion was lost by the German state alone; including similar deals like Cum-Cum, the damage amounts to at least 35 billion euros.” Source ZDF
“Trautvetter explains that this is also due to the fact that these people have the resources to find legal ways around taxes. ‘Very many super-rich people use tax loopholes and move very close to the boundary between tax evasion and so-called aggressive tax planning.’ This ultimately leads to super-rich paying far less tax than average employees – legally and without tax evasion.” Source MDR
“Some politicians vehemently demand cuts in social benefits, especially for citizens’ money and pensions – and the federal government indeed wants to cut social expenditures by at least 1.5 billion euros. Certainly, there is occasional abuse of social benefits, although it is important to emphasize: the overwhelming majority of recipients are honest and reliable. The costs of this amount to roughly 60 million euros a year according to very rough estimates, which may seem like a lot but is very little compared to other sums. Estimates show that the German state loses nearly 100 billion euros annually in tax revenues due to tax avoidance, especially by the wealthiest.” Source DIW
Of course, you don’t hear this from CDU and FDP, since you don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Therefore, once again: direct your gaze upwards, not downwards.