In Berlin, will discuss the Federal budget, in Munich, opposition to the plans forming. CSU chief Söder is missing a concept for the future – and accuses the Federal Minister of Finance Scholz step back.
In the CSU grows, the resistance against the budget plans of the Federal Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz (SPD). Party leader Markus Söder described the budget as “problematic”.
It increases contains “inedible Cocktail of the proposal, perhaps, but too little investment in technology and infrastructure, but the idea of making higher social spending”. The plans of Scholz “were not a future concept, but rather a step backwards,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister after a meeting of the CSU Board of management in Munich.
CSU wants to reduce taxes
You can’t support what Germany will throw back. “We can only make something that protects and Germany strengthens,” said Söder. As a counter-model, he proposed tax cuts, more technology and an affordable supply of energy. He again called for the complete removal of the solidarity surcharge.
Should be abolished, the solos only partially, this could be “causing the two-class tax system” possible constitutional problems, fears Söder. The coalition had previously agreed to a discharge of ten billion euros, 90 percent of the Soli-to rid the payer.
Söder refers to the coalition agreement
Also against the reform plans of the SPD to the pension there is resistance at the CSU. There will be no renegotiation of the coalition agreement, said Söder, according to participants in the Board meeting. With the CSU, it will increases, neither the tax nor a CO2 tax, Changes to Hartz IV, or a basic pension without the need of examination.
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