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

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)
  • 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?

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"
[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

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.