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

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    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”