Robert Habeck versus Markus Söder. For quite a few it would be the been the desirable election campaign duel. Candidates became others. The duel took place anyway.
The CSU chairman Markus Söder and the Greens boss Robert Habeck have certified Germany that they have coped well with the corona pandemic. “All in all, that went well”Söder said in a dispute with Habeck that took place on Saturday evening from “Spiegel”, “T-online” and the magazine “Vice” was broadcast. In this case, the Greens and the Union were very close to each other in the risk assessment. “We protected our country well in this extremely exceptional situation.”
Robert Habeck: Looked at schools too late during Corona
Habeck objected that the focus on the problems of the schools had been sharpened too late. It also took a long time, for example, until masks were procured or the vaccination campaign got going. Overall, however, he made it clear that he shares the benevolent assessment of the Bavarian Prime Minister: “Overall, we saw that the government’s guidelines or actions were correct.”
Söder was alarmed about radicalization tendencies among vaccination opponents and corona deniers. “It worries me that part of this whole out-of-the-box thinker scene isn’t just talking about vaccination, it’s about a different state, a different form of democracy”, he said. Some of them are people who are being watched by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The threats he received personally are “sometimes very violently”, also racist, anti-Semitic. At some point there will be a point where lateral thinkers have to be “in case of doubt, also feel that a state is not going to put up with it”.
Habeck: Union has forgotten how to calculate
In tax policy, Habeck criticized the CDU and CSU tax concept as unrealistic and unjust. “I am worried about the Union because it has obviously forgotten how to calculate”said Habeck. From the Union’s tax plans would “the top ten percent benefit extremely, while everyone else benefits only a little and those at the bottom no longer benefit at all”said the Green chief. “With us it is exactly the opposite.”
The Union also does not say where it wants to get the money for the tax relief from. “Where will it come from if taxes are still to be cut? And then – and logically that already knocks the bottom out of the barrel – they want to comply with the debt brake more quickly”said Habeck.
Söder: Green economic policy can destabilize a country
CSU boss Söder, however, warned with a view to the plans of the Greens that new debts would weaken the currency and destabilize the country. “If you are not careful, you will end up in this Greek spiral that we found difficult to stop in the euro area”said Söder. “Our main concern is to maintain the country’s competitiveness.”
He worries that many medium-sized companies in Germany would be forced to give up due to an increase in inheritance tax and the wealth tax demanded by the Greens. Söder accused the Greens of promising something “without explaining who should actually earn the money. In the end, this is the medium-sized economy. Because that creates jobs”said the CSU chief. Moderate tax rates would create incentives for investment and entrepreneurship. “In the long run, the financing does not come from higher tax rates, but from lower ones, because the economy is stimulated”said Söder.
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