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Dieter Nuhr quoted opponents of savings books with the assessment that taxes and duties are at a world record level, yet the state still has no money. Nuhr justified this not by claiming insufficient revenue, but by stating that the government cannot handle the money properly. #Steuern #Wirtschaft #Politik (translated)

Here is the direct payment mechanism that can be issued through the Federal Tax Office, the right lever. Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche also called for a more targeted approach for the time after the "tank discount" in the ARD interview of the week on Friday: "Here is the direct payment mechanism that can be issued through the Federal Tax Office, the right lever," said the CDU politician. #Tankrabatt #Entlastungen #Spritpreise (translated)

Carsten Jahn wrote that Friedrich Merz completely ruled out a resignation and referred to himself as a firewall against the AfD. According to Jahn, this means that Merz and the CDU only want to cooperate with the SPD, Greens, and Left. He claimed that this would continue to generously support Ukraine and the EU, promote left-wing extremism, increase the state quota and taxes, and disregard democracy. #CDU #Politik #Deutschland (translated)

TheSteelSpring wrote that the state wants to prevent the video from being seen, allegedly justifying this with victim protection. He labeled this justification as a lie. At the same time, he spoke derogatorily about a group not further specified and stated that they should not be here. He also criticized that the state, according to his account, supports this group with taxpayers' money, including the taxes of the victim families. #Freiheit #Wahrheit #Opferschutz (translated)

Artificial intelligence described the example of a retiree who had worked all his life, lived frugally, and rented out a semi-detached house as a pension plan. It wrote that he wanted to sell the rented property in retirement but, due to the abolished 10-year holding period, would have to fully tax the difference between the purchase price and the selling price. Even if the selling price turned out to be lower than expected due to the tight market situation and new energy standards, artificial intelligence argued that, from the tax office's perspective, a profit could arise. As an example, it mentioned an increase in price from €200,000 to €350,000 and pointed out that the purchasing power of the euro had fallen to half over the past decades. According to its presentation, costs for maintenance and renovations, vacancies, and difficulties with tenants were not taken into account. Artificial intelligence criticized that people who had saved and refrained from consumption could ultimately pay for their retirement plans through taxation. At the same time, it claimed that saved money was distributed all over the world and benefited people who had lived less frugally. Finally, it asked what lessons future generations would learn from this injustice. #Kapitalismus #Altersvorsorge #SozialeGerechtigkeit (translated)

Bernd Kaiser accused Fritz-Kola of double standards. He wrote that the company had presented itself as left-wing and anti-capitalist for years, but was now criticizing the planned sugar tax, which would particularly impact the company due to its sugar content of 10.5 grams per 100 milliliters. Kaiser estimated Fritz-Kola's annual revenue at 116 million euros and said the company complained about bureaucracy and hundreds of additional customs officers. At the same time, he criticized that Fritz-Kola was acting as a sponsor of the CDU party conference. The tax, according to Kaiser, would burden local medium-sized businesses while large corporations like Coca-Cola would be less affected. #Zuckersteuer #Doppelmoral https://t.co/vNlj5kf4H6 #Doppelmoral #Sozialismus #Wirtschaft (translated)

In the current edition of the Tagesschau in Simple Language, there is a report about government support for young people saving for retirement, higher taxes due to more expensive smoking, a school shooting in the USA, and the EU meeting for aid to Ukraine. #Rente #Steuern #Ukraine (translated)

The Minister of Economic Affairs, Reiche, advocates for a more targeted relief for low-income earners in the ARD Interview of the Week - and increases the pressure on the Ministry of Finance. Here, the direct payment mechanism that can be issued through the Federal Tax Office is the right lever. For the period following the "fuel discount," Reiche advocates for a more targeted approach: "Here, the direct payment mechanism that can be issued through the Federal Tax Office is the right lever." At the same time, Reiche brought up an amendment to EU law to allow for a reduction in the value-added tax on gasoline and diesel. #Tankrabatt #Direktzahlungen #Energiekrise (translated)

Mario Lochner criticized that the holding period for real estate should be eliminated. According to his perspective, with a value increase of 3 percent per year, the rise merely offsets inflation. Anyone selling a property after more than ten years would still have to pay tax on the inflation-related value increase, he wrote. Lochner considered the argument that real estate is favored over other investments to be incorrect. Rather, other forms of investment are disadvantaged. He warned that in the end everything would be taxed and asked who would protect people from this, in his view, nonsensical approach. #Steuern #Immobilien #Wirtschaft (translated)

Markusdd recalled the Audi Quattro advertisement in which a car drove up a ski jump and wrote that Germany was still capable of such actions decades ago. Today, comparable demonstrations were, in his opinion, mostly followed by EU and bureaucracy memes that explained, with gallows humor, why such things no longer exist. He suggested that such an event probably wouldn't have happened in Germany for insurance reasons. The product itself was unimportant and hardly relevant to Tesla's balance sheet, Markusdd wrote. More important were the sealed bottle caps: they made the overreach of bureaucracy in everyday life visible, in his view. He cited examples such as caps on milk cartons, cars that beeped at 1 km/h over the speed limit, bollards that he attributed to Green ideologues, as well as taxes and levies that left employees with less than half of their earned money. In the evening, one would then learn from public broadcasters about the next plans of the bureaucrats, he wrote. Markusdd called for breaking this cycle. He was not advocating that everyone needed a roadster with cold gas thrusters, but rather that the world was laughing at Europe and it was just a shadow of its former self. #Bürokratie #Innovation #Gesellschaft (translated)

Volker Ketzer wrote that the state is raising cigarette prices with reference to the health damage of smoking and could, if all goes according to plan, take in billions more. He criticized that while the state wants people to quit smoking, it is also dependent on the revenues from tobacco sales. #Rauchen #Gesundheit #Steuern (translated)

Apollo News wrote that the German economy is sinking deeper into a crisis while the state apparatus continues to grow. The federal government is focusing on new taxes and levies instead of relief; as a current example, Apollo News mentioned the sugar tax. https://t.co/vOeeqHvPhr #Deutschland #Wirtschaft #Zuckersteuer (translated)

Jochen K. Roos, MdL, referred to another tax increase as a significant burden and wrote that it became known "quietly, silently, and discreetly" after 11 PM. According to his account, it surpasses the tobacco tax increase of 2004. https://t.co/LqIesNGo8A #Steuern #Politik #Deutschland (translated)

Thomas Woelfer compared the alleged flying cars in the USA with several burdens here in the country. These included increases in tobacco and alcohol taxes, a sugar tax, higher social contributions, rising health insurance premiums, and an increasing CO₂ price. https://t.co/ot7KdaRx7R #Steuern #Deutschland #Gesundheit (translated)

The government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz is planning new taxes on sugar, tobacco, and alcohol, while simultaneously promising relief on the electricity tax, which could ultimately lead to a higher financial burden for many households. #Steuern #Haushalt #Entlastung (translated)

The autumn princess wrote that Donald Trump spoke of people from Africa, South America, and parts of Asia coming to Europe, labeling it as an invasion. He named the United Kingdom as the main suspect; previous governments had done little to counter it. The author argued that uncontrolled immigration had caused problems in many European countries regarding social spending, internal security, and social cohesion. She urged governments to regulate immigration more according to criteria that are acceptable to the citizens, and stated that otherwise, increasing criticism from abroad is not surprising. In conclusion, she characterized the contribution as satire and wrote that nothing in it was meant seriously. #Zuwanderung #Gesellschaft #Europa (translated)