Abschied für immer, Deutschland

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return to the primitive

Well, farewell forever to modern Germany — the visigoths will surely recognize and be comfortable in its replacement

Germans Unlock the Debt Brake - Spending Bombs Away!

...What is even more outrageous, however, is that Mr. Merz is not only trying to use a lame-duck parliament to push through some of the most far reaching changes to the post WW2 German constitution, but he does so while explicitly breaking campaign promises from just a few weeks ago. The CDU’s party programme released in January 2025 states explicitly that there will be no tampering with the debt brake. On page 14 it explains the CDU’s supposedly prudent financial policy that hinges on the triad of adhering to the constitutional debt brake, implementing tax relief, and making necessary investments. According to the programme, the debt brake helps prevent today’s debts from turning into tomorrow’s tax hikes, ensuring Germany remains a pillar of stability in the eurozone.

It’s claimed that (most of) the huge new debts the government will be piling up will go towards building a defense force; I don’t believe that for a second — the measure passed onky after a deal was brokered with Germany’s Green Party, and communists don’t approve of spending dollars on military for non-coummunist nations — but, as Bjorn Lomborg points out, the other amendment, saddling the country with a “net-zero” makes the first change irrelevant: