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Yvonne Kussmann wrote that a 23-year-old Indian man snatched a five-year-old boy from his mother on a platform in Wuppertal in April 2018 and jumped in front of a train with him. The child survived the attack without serious injuries. In October 2018, the man was acquitted due to insanity caused by paranoid schizophrenia and placed in a secure psychiatric facility. Kussmann contrasted the diagnosis with the belief in demons like Asuras or Pishachas in India, from whom people might receive commands, including to kill. She stated that the man had been deported after about eight years in the secure facility; various media reported on this. At the same time, she questioned whether Western therapies were meaningful for a man with a different cultural background. Using figures from North Rhine-Westphalia for 2025, Kussmann calculated that among approximately 4,300 detained individuals, costs of 623 million euros had been incurred. This amounts to about 390 euros per person per day. For eight years in the secure facility, this totals just over 1.1 million euros for the man. Kussmann questioned why the man had not been immediately deported instead of being treated at the taxpayers' expense for so long. She noted that he had entered as an asylum seeker, attempted to kill a child, and had never received a punishment for the act. #Asylpolitik #PsychischeGesundheit #Gesellschaftsdebatte (translated)

Steffan Nethe criticized the planned expenditure of 25 million euros for a new refugee shelter on the Stralau peninsula in Berlin. He described the location as one of the most expensive and exclusive in the capital, contrasting the amount with the almost 400 billion euros that Germany has spent on migration policy over the past eleven years, according to his representation. Nethe wrote that while the middle class has been urged to save and pay higher taxes for years, the project sends a devastating signal to the working population. Citing internal documents, he stated that the property was too small, the construction forms were complicated, and costs were already spiraling out of control. He doubted that it would remain at 25 million euros and cited the project as an example of wasteful use of tax money. At the same time, he pointed out that citizens in large cities could hardly afford living space anymore. #Steuergeldverschwendung #Migration #Wohnraum (translated)

The author claimed that Merkel's asylum policy has so far cost 400 billion in tax money alone. Social follow-up costs have not been taken into account and are likely to amount to several times that. Immigration continues, and with it, costs are rising as well, he wrote. https://t.co/aJ7mJOgyKD #Asylpolitik #Einwanderung #Kosten #DE (translated)

The author joined a demand attributed to Elon Musk that Zelensky should go. He spoke out against providing further German taxpayer money for the war, citing poverty in the country as his reason. He stated that he stood by this position and asked others for their opinion. #Ukraine #ElonMusk #Krieg #DE #UA (translated)

The author wrote that Elon Musk demanded that Zelensky should go and stated that he fully supported this demand. He spoke out against further German tax money for the war, justifying this by saying that the population in Germany is sinking into poverty. He also stated that he stood by his position and asked readers for their opinions. #ElonMusk #Selenskyj #Steuerpolitik #DE #UA (translated)

Steffan Nethe criticized Ferat Koçak for his contacts with Firas Remmo and accused him of contradictory statements. Nethe wrote that Koçak is funded with about 17,500 euros of taxpayers' money each month. He claimed that the Bundestag member had accepted a smartphone as an in-kind donation from the son of a well-known clan leader. According to Koçak's account, the device was intended for Antifa youth, whose phones had been confiscated by the police. Nethe questioned Koçak's statement that he initially did not know who he was chatting with and later sat in an office with him. Even after Koçak recognized who was in front of him, he did not terminate the contact but took the phone with him and contacted Firas Remmo again two weeks later, Nethe wrote. Furthermore, Koçak had asked Remmo to spread a Bundestag speech in which he referred to the term "clan crime" as a political fighting term. Nethe also criticized a voice message with warm regards to Remmo and Koçak's wish to do politics more "for the street" than in parliament. He dismissed Koçak's later regret and the explanation that the situation had been overwhelming. He called for Koçak to no longer be funded with taxpayer money and to relieve him of his political offices. #Politik #Korruption #Clankriminalität (translated)

Dr. David Lütke stated that the Thuringian state parliament employs one person to wipe and another to bring water at the expense of taxpayers. He criticized that neither is cleaned disinfected nor is water served in a stylish manner, and he questioned what purpose two employees served if they only did their tasks half-heartedly. https://t.co/dEBmP1w4li #Thüringen #Politik #Steuergeld (translated)

Nurder Koch wrote that Katherina Reiche has apparently used her ministry as a campaign headquarters for the CDU. According to an urgent application from Karlsruhe, she must delete her anti-left video, he wrote. He accused her of using taxpayer money against the opposition and losing in court; it couldn't be more embarrassing. https://t.co/HGMyWraPck #Politik #CDU #Steuergelder (translated)

Gerald Markel accused Ukrainian citizens of living in Europe off money from corruption and theft. He referred to data from the Spanish Notary Chamber, according to which more than 14,000 real estate transactions with Ukrainian buyers, amounting to over two billion euros, had been registered since the beginning of the war. The average income in Ukraine is approximately 600 euros, he wrote. Markel claimed that since February 2022, 500 billion euros and dollars had flowed into Ukraine, with 300 billion coming from Europe. Germany had provided more than 100 billion euros in taxpayers' money over the past 4.5 years. He also criticized the EU for planning to introduce a control mechanism for the use of funds only in 2026, in connection with a 90-billion-euro package. He accused Ukraine of holding state funerals for SS collaborators and mass murderers. As an example of what he sees as inconsistent controls, Markel described the sale of a property in Vienna to a Ukrainian citizen in 2019 for just under five million euros. Although the buyer had lived in Germany for years and had the money in German accounts, Markel stated that it had been difficult for months to open an escrow account in Austria for the purchase. Banks had deemed the scrutiny of the source of funds too cumbersome; the transaction was only completed after months and numerous documents. He lamented that European citizens were subjected to strict compliance checks for transfers, while the Spanish real estate purchases by Ukrainian citizens went through without issues. #Ukraine #Korruption #Finanzen (translated)

Prof. Karl Kautabak, the Minister of Health, wrote in a satire that it is considered "perceived injustice" when people without prior contributions to the social system receive the same benefits as long-term contributors. He also criticized that taxpayers' money is going to Ukraine without returns, such as raw materials, while cuts are being made elsewhere. According to him, politicians regularly increase their salaries while demanding that the population work longer or pay more taxes. Addressing his counterpart, he wrote that they had mental health issues and should seek treatment; he described a loss of reality as curable. #SozialeUngerechtigkeit #Steuern #Politik (translated)

The author wrote that, according to a new Bertelsmann survey, around 60 percent of Germans are against Ukraine joining the EU. Only in Romania is the rejection within the EU greater. He also asked whether the Germans had finally woken up after the hundredth gift of taxpayers' money. #EU #Ukraine #Bertelsmann #DE #RO #UA (translated)

Steffan Nethe honored the mayors Marco Jahns from Grimmen and Thomas Pauketat from Sundhagen for having left the CDU. He wrote that their statements showed they could no longer identify with the political course of the party and that the CDU was also losing its own members. Nethe cited the ongoing de-industrialization, the worst financial crisis of municipalities since World War II, a loss of control over internal security, and the ignoring of the voters' will as reasons. He also criticized that taxpayer money was being spent abroad, while in his opinion it was needed domestically for municipalities, care, and pensions. Nethe described the dual exit in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as an alarming sign. He wrote that the CDU had lost touch with reality and with its voters. #CDU #Kommunalpolitik #MecklenburgVorpommern (translated)

Koch accused the CDU of associating terrorism, anti-Semitism, and organized crime with the Left on their official Instagram account to discredit the party with taxpayers' money. At the same time, he claimed that the CDU was helping the AfD to attain political offices and portrayed the Left as an enemy of the state. Koch suspected that the reason for this was the Left's demands to question property relations, expropriate large real estate companies, and tax capital more heavily. Koch also criticized that public broadcasting had been preoccupied for weeks with individual slogans and the Berlin Left, while the CDU's policies were rarely subjected to fundamental scrutiny. In his view, the dispute was about class interests, economic power, and who could implement political changes. The CDU defended existing property and power relations while fighting against their change, he wrote. #CDU #Linke #Politik (translated)

Heimatgefühl wrote that the CDU wants to leave the plenary chamber together on election day in December. As a comparison, the author cited a scenario from professional life: If an employee were to persuade a group to collectively cease work and leave the room, he would, in his estimation, have to expect a warning or immediate dismissal. At the same time, Heimatgefühl criticized politicians as overpaid and accused them of using parliament for political power games. Individuals like Schulze, in his opinion, take too much liberty. Those who hold a political mandate bear responsibility towards the citizens; however, according to Heimatgefühl, the CDU is indifferent to them. #CDU #Politik #Wahlen (translated)

Ben Jamin asked Marcel Fratzscher for an update on a statement made ten years ago. He referred to Fratzscher's reputation as an economics expert and ironically asked whether a considerable amount of taxpayers' money had been collected from refugees in the meantime. https://t.co/rgOxyZf11P #Wirtschaft #Steuern #Flüchtlinge (translated)

Heimatgefühl criticized a video in which Böhmermann depicted Ulrich Siegmund on a blue moped before a truck runs over him, backs up, and runs over him a second time. This staged Siegmund's death, the author wrote. The depiction goes too far and crosses the boundaries of decency. In addition, Heimatgefühl complained that such content was funded with taxpayer money and described it as the kind of satire produced by Böhmermann and ZDF. #Satire #Böhmermann #ZDF (translated)

GLUT wrote that Dortmund is almost bankrupt but finances the Social-Ecological Center with taxpayers' money. There, on Sunday, an Antifa committee held a solidarity action for what GLUT labeled the "Hammer Gang" as far-left extremists. Waffles were served starting at 1:12 PM, according to GLUT's research. https://t.co/D9SdWRbyV9 https://t.co/dGpcmDMN6v #Dortmund #Sozialpolitik #Antifa (translated)

Glut Magazine reported exclusively that Dortmund is heading towards a deficit of 206 million euros and has had a budget freeze since October 1. Nevertheless, new tax money is flowing into a left-wing center that sees itself as the "home since day one" of the Antifa solidarity committee Dortmund. https://t.co/FJZw6kQtd7 #Dortmund #Finanzen #Politik #DE (translated)