Totally New on April, 1st: Martin Schulz’s Program.

Martin Schulz – February, 28, 2014 – picture taken from Wikipedia.

When I was young, I often went to the “Republican Coffee Shops” and similar dubious places. In those days, we had many Jusos who could be found in huge numbers in these places.

Together, we finished off quite a few litres of red wine and made smoke of many Rothändle cartons. From those days, there are still a few and mostly already rather old social democrats among my friends.

Some of them are even older than I and they like telling tales. One of them sent me a document that reveals the secret of the new SPD electoral program under Martin Schulz.

Here are the most important parts of his social-democratic program as a short and catchword-like excerpt:

  • A clear NO to the increase in armament spending of the FRG to 2% of our gross national product as required by the Trump USA. On the contrary – they want a step-by-step decrease to finally arrive at less than 1% and a considerable reduction of weapons exports.
  • More money for education.
  • Strict prohibition of lobbyism and political decisions and legislation being influenced, along with a ban on the influence all kinds of institutions, such as employers’ associations, unions or churches have.
  • Strong regulation of marketing, especially if it is easy to misunderstand and manipulative.
  • Less taxes and fewer of those contributions that make work more expensive.
  • No tax on general income up to 50,000.- and on work-related income up to 100,000.-. To make up for it: far higher taxes on income exceeding 250,000 € per year.
  • An obligation to disclose and make transparent all anonymous and exorbitant property, be it privately owned or owned by legal entities.
  • New regulations for inheritance tax in such a way that the income gained from an inheritance increases with each generation (example: an additional income tax of perhaps 10% on gains from directly inherited assets, then 20% if you inherited in the second generation, etc.).
  • Massively more tax on speculation gains and all sorts of gambling (currencies, raw materials, food, enterprises,…)
  • Infra-structure: ProBahn, ÖPNV and active mobility.
  • Tempo limit on motorways (110 km/h), highways (80/km) and inside towns and villages (30 km/h as a default upper limit).
  • Adjustment of taxes on petrol and diesel with a relevant increase – to make up for it: no stupid road toll.
  • Abolishing the subsidies for the automobile industry (business cars).
  • Gender equality that deserves the name

For Europe, too, his plans are great:

  • A Europe of regions that is no longer the plaything of national states. Instead, a division of the big nations and an establishment of federal states with a maximum dimension as big as Bavaria.
  • The reduction of central power systems (Brussels) and sub-centralized power systems such as Berlin, etc.; Instead: a network of subsidiary local and regional systems.
  • Reduction of the overflowing System EUROPE and the huge advantages for EUROPE officers when it comes to income.
  • And best of all: the central EURO is to be abolished and replaced by local EURO varieties. They are adapted to the regional circumstances and constitute a floating currency network. Externally, they are represented by an average Euro.

Martin Schulz states that the values that underlie all his activities are:

  • A healthy scepticism when it comes to the belief in eternal growth, Taylorism and globalisation.
  • Enlightened, agile, slim and open thinking and behaviour.
  • Solidarity versus egotism, transparency beats secrets, courage beats fear.
  • Not only respecting other humans, but also appreciation and meeting at eye-level!
  • Less administration and bureaucracy and instead more political organization based on social consensus.

Well, if it comes to discussing such a program “FUTURE FIRST”, I will gladly participate. And I would actually think about, at long last, again voting for SPD (notwithstanding the “Who told on me?”-question). But now, unfortunately, another equally trustworthy source revealed to me that the document, unfortunately, is only an April-Fools-Day joke I fell for. In fact, neither the SPD nor Martin Schulz want any of these things.

RMD
(Translated by EG)

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