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Gesine Lötzsch

The chancellor cares more about the peace in the coalition than about the social peace in our country

"We need a hundred year tax reform and not a tax reform which is a consolation for aggrieved coalition partners” claims the chairwoman of the party DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch, in response to the discussion about a tax simplification. Gesine Lötzsch goes on:

Every German federal government has conceiled tax reductions for wealthy people by the use of tax simplifications. The tax systems never became simpler, but always more complex. But in the main the chancellor strives for a consolation for the coalition partner. The FDP, which has to fear for her re-entry into the Bundestag (parliament), is intended to be kept alive by means of this tax reform.

DIE LINKE criticizes that the chancellor cares more about the peace in the coalition than about the social peace in our country. Therefore we claim a hundred year tax reform that makes our country more just. To this end the gainers of the crisis and the gamblers have to be taxed so that they lose the interest in gambling.