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

  • kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    • Print 1bn in welfare
    • Welfare ultimately gets spent into rich folks’ coffers
    • Tax that 1bn back out of the rich
    • Net cost: zero

    What’s “unaffordable” here?

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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”
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      It’s unaffordable to greedy corporations and billionaires who would not afford the working to have a single dime in their pocket if they had it their way.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      If only “tax” meant “tap” as in “tap a sugar maple for its sweet sweet amber sap” and the freshly gutted 1% could also be used as fertilizer afterward.

      Win/win! Poverty and hunger in one fell slash? I’m in.