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> I doubt it was idiotic but simple corruption. Why not both? Certainly Schröder, or Gazprom-Gerd as I call him, got his. For the Greens it's more idiotic id
by mpweiher 2y ago
> I doubt it was idiotic but simple corruption.
Why not both?
Certainly Schröder, or Gazprom-Gerd as I call him, got his.
For the Greens it's more idiotic ideology.
- croes 2y agoThe debt brake fetish of FDP is much more of a ideology than the plans of the Green Party. Especially Habeck is more driven by necessity, Baerbock not so much.
- mpweiher 2y agoThe FDP has ~5%. The Schuldenbremse was added to the constitution in 2009, which requires a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, and so had to be passed with broad agreement from both the ruling parties and the opposition.
- mpweiher 2y agoOh, and the EEG fee (guaranteed price for producers of renewable electricity regardless of demand) that is now funded through the federal budget exploded to > €20 billion. Which is pretty much the amount that caused the government to collapse in the budget row.