11-23-2023, 10:24 PM
(11-23-2023, 10:04 PM)Nintex wrote: No they didn't. Because they didn't believe he could win. They mostly just called it unconstitutional.
The press was mostly focused on how this program had sharp edges removed because a bunch of things like extending the ban of Mein Kampf to include the Quran have been taken out compared to previous years.
There is a climate fund with 35 billion Euro 'parked' because the current government set it up but they didn't get around to spending any of it.
Most parties want to (partially) use that money (which is already 'spent' on paper anyway) and use it for other things. For example abolishing the own-risk payment in healthcare would cost about 4 billion Euro.
But multiple parties had programs with no financial backing and some had cumulative tax rates of 100%, meaning that while it looked good on paper a lot of companies would go bankrupt.
Most party programs end up in the bin when a government is formed anyway.
well that's true i suppose
i've heard the "no no, it wasn't a promise it was an aspiration" a few times
