To be sure, the austerity package contained some reasonable content. One of the good ideas was to finally include the industrial sectors with high energy consumption in the eco-taxation regulations. Originally, the austerity package of the Merkel Government had been designed to eliminate the companies with a high energy consumption from the list of those who can enjoy subsidises. This should have meant an extra 1.5 billion Euros for the Federal Budget.
But now it seems like this is not going to happen. Again, a subsidy regulation that does nothing towards helping us reach a goal and should have been abolished long ago is extended. And all attempts at counterbalancing the climate change are for nothing. Why should your average citizen invest in an expensive new heating system if elsewhere the gas is blown into the sky at a totally different rate?
The reason given for this decision is particularly annoying:
Jobs must be saved!
Jobs that would otherwise be moved into other countries. This is a statement that has never been proved at all. You could postulate with equal justification that an ecological tax for energy-intense industrial sectors would create new jobs.
The true reason is probably a simple one:
Again, the lobbyists of the respective industries have prevailed. And they saved the comfortable profits of their clients.
Once more, “politics” seem to act in total contrast to what the people think. And it remains true to itself in one respect – as usual, it keeps strictly to what the lobbyists want.
Isn’t it hilarious that the smokers are supposed to make up for the withdrawal of the withdrawal from the ecological tax exemption? After all, there is enough proof that higher prices for cigarettes and tobacco lower the tobacco consumption. And if now the smokers not only have to pay for the defence of our country, but also for the survival of industries that consume a lot of energy, then the time might really have come for more smokers to abstain. Then we would have gained nothing financially …
Quite apart from the fact that tax increase has nothing at all to do with saving money (see austerity package). Those components of the package that made sense are abolished. And in the end, all that might remain is higher taxes for margin groups and a mandatory payment on profit for enterprises that probably do not even make a profit.
Now that sounds more like cabaret than politics.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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