2024-09-08 08:39:38
Politics with lobbyists. It is often said that they do their work in back rooms. In fact, they are most common in restaurants and club rooms. This Tuesday, for example, in the “Berlin Capital Club”, a private business center, admission fee 4,800 euros, annual fee 1,890 euros, each with statutory VAT.
And that brings us to the topic – money. This morning’s guest is the President of the Taxpayers Association, Reiner Holznagel. Many Germans know him from Mario Barth’s television show, in which he opposes the waste tax, and others from the newspaper, in which he basically does the same thing. Many of Holznagel’s fiscal policy demands coincide with those of the FDP. So there is a lot to complain about. Because, as some regret, the FDP does not govern alone.
The Mongolian delegation also seems important
Comfort comes to those who are broken in the tower rooms. Here you are among bi-lovers. In the women’s toilet there is a Wella hair dryer called “Work” for enthusiastic guests. Breakfast is served on white-covered tables, price: 28 euros, rolls, slices of sausage, slices of cheese, salmon, freshly squeezed juice. Many men and some women were sitting. View of the Gendarmenmarkt. The sun is shining. One must say: still. Holznagel, speaking at the invitation of the first party for the expansion of infrastructure and sustainability, Infraneu, painted a dark picture of the situation.
“Believer,” the economics professor is torn between eggs and salmon when the subject of the national debt comes up. The Mongolian delegation also seems important. Finance Minister Lindner is “very imaginative” when it comes to budget planning, Holznagel said in lavish praise. That means: Decisions are made with tricks instead of logic and often. “Where can you save” is the big question in Holznagel’s eyes, and he provides an immediate answer. “I tell you: everywhere!” The problem is clearly political. The SPD and the Greens are there too.
Holznagel sees divisions not only between government coalition partners, but also between generations. It disturbs many families because young people do not want to work like adults when they are young. Children drop out of their fourth year course and don’t want to move to the finca on Mallorca with their parents because of the CO2 emissions. The culture of competition at the breakfast table – which seems familiar to many listeners, judging by the nods. Luck is not at the breakfast table at the Berlin Capital Club. Then the server poured some coffee.
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