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Anyone who wants to become chancellor as an SPD politician would do well not to give too much to the love of his comrades. It is more important that citizens give you financial experience. This is how Helmut Schmidt and Gerhard Schröder thought. And that’s how Olaf Scholz did it for a long time. The finance minister presented himself as a pragmatist in the middle, for whom a flourishing economy was more important than the applause at the congresses of the social democratic parties.
But that has changed since SPD leaders Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken proclaimed him a candidate for chancellor. As a thank you, Scholz now wants to lead the fiscal election campaign that the two party leaders have been calling for for a long time. Since taking office last December, they have been talking about higher inheritance and estate taxes and a new property tax. That’s why Scholz now advocates that the wealthy “make a bigger contribution to community funding” in the future. It may be that the new tone of the Finance Minister contributes to greater unity at the top of the SPD. In any case, it is the opposite of what the economy needs today.
