The German chancellor has called for a welfare reform, putting him on course for a possible clash with the SPD.

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[–] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • Print 1bn in welfare
  • Welfare ultimately gets spent into rich folks’ coffers
  • Tax that 1bn back out of the rich
  • Net cost: zero

What’s “unaffordable” here?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    If only "tax" meant "tap" as in "tap a sugar maple for its sweet sweet amber sap" and the freshly gutted 1% could also be used as fertilizer afterward.

    Win/win! Poverty and hunger in one fell slash? I'm in.

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  • The worry is:

    • the german government prints 1bn euros and hands it out to the people
    • the people will spend 300m of it to buy furniture, cars, smartphones
    • that money goes to companies abroad, to billionaires abroad, and can't be "taxed back"

    The solution is:

    • literally create import tariffs that make importing goods from other countries more expensive, so people are incentivized to spend money on domestically produced goods
    • now the money flows back to domestic billionaires,
    • where it can be "taxed back"
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