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Should high income be included in crown costs? This is what Lothar Binding and Olaf Scholz (SPD) are asking for. Economy Minister Altmaier (CDU) is opposed.
In the SPD, there are more and more voices calling for high-income people to participate more in the huge costs of the crown. “The people who came out of the crisis well should help the state to recover after the crisis,” said the spokesman for financial policy of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Lothar Binding, of “Bild”. “That should be a matter of course.”
Binding thus supports the demand of the Minister of Finance and the main candidate of the SPD, Olaf Scholz. He had already announced that in the event of a victory in the 2021 federal elections, he wanted to raise taxes for those who earn the most. The federal minister of Economy, Peter Altmaier (CDU), rejects it “increases of taxes by poison”. He would “not take part” in such a discussion, he told “Bild”. He wants to work so that there are none in the next legislature.
DIW President considers tax increases an option
The president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Marcel Fratzscher, believes that tax increases are an option to recharge the state coffers. “The sharp increase in the national debt will have to be corrected after the pandemic,” said the “Bild” economist.
The best way is through higher economic growth. However, to do this, politicians must drive structural change towards climate protection, digitization and globalization with much more force than before. “If this is not successful, then it will be necessary to increase taxes in the long run,” Fratzscher said.
