Pensions, retirement benefits, and long-term care add up to roughly 40% of the German social budget, while 23% goes toward healthcare. That's already 63%.
Approximately 10% is spent on supporting children and young people (with problems), and about 5% on child benefits and the like.
AND ABOUT 4% IS SPENT ON CITIZENS' WELFARE, AND THAT'S ALL WE'RE DISCUSSING?
When Merz calls for the welfare state to finally be modernized, he only wants one thing: redistribution.
From the bottom up. Merz and his co. have just significantly increased pensions and retirement benefits with a lawn sprinkler, while tax increases for the rich are ruled out! And no one seriously believes that inheritance tax will ever become a real tax that also affects billionaires.
Budget figures here:
More Facts:
48 billion euros still flow into fossil fuel subsidies every year.
The absurd company car privilege (Dienstwagenprivileg) costs 13 billion.
100 billion is lost to the state because tax loopholes for corporations and the wealthy aren't closed.
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