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  • Pensions, retirement benefits, and long-term care add up to roughly 40% of the German social budget, while 23% goes toward healthcare. That’s already 63%.

    Approximately 10% is spent on supporting children and young people (with problems), and about 5% on child benefits and the like.

    AND ABOUT 4% IS SPENT ON CITIZENS’ WELFARE, AND THAT’S ALL WE’RE DISCUSSING?

    When Merz calls for the welfare state to finally be modernized, he only wants one thing: redistribution.

    From the bottom up. Merz and his co. have just significantly increased pensions and retirement benefits with a lawn sprinkler, while tax increases for the rich are ruled out! And no one seriously believes that inheritance tax will ever become a real tax that also affects billionaires.

    Budget figures here:

    https://www.sozialpolitik-aktuell.de/files/sozialpolitik-aktuell/_Politikfelder/Finanzierung/Datensammlung/PDF-Dateien/abbII2.pdf

    More Facts:

    48 billion euros still flow into fossil fuel subsidies every year.

    The absurd company car privilege (Dienstwagenprivileg) costs 13 billion.

    100 billion is lost to the state because tax loopholes for corporations and the wealthy aren’t closed.










  • That’s nonsense. In Germany, the nuclear phase-out began under the first red-green government in the year 2000 and it was completed in 2011, when the cabinet under Angela Merkel decided to phase out nuclear power by 2022. On 30 June 2011, the German Bundestag voted in favour of the exit with 513 of 600 votes from members of all parties. There’s no way that this was controlled by Russia.

    There’s a huge movement for renewables in Germany and nuclear power always had it tough in the country where there’s no space for the save storage of nuclear waste.

    Edit: If anything, Russia would even have an interest in longer operating times for nuclear power plants, because the raw materials for many of the fuel elements used in European nuclear power plants still come from Russia until today.