“No cash payments”: Economist Raffelhüschen calls for massive reform of citizens’ money. According to the economist, Germany must return to the principle of the so-called subsidiary welfare state.

Those who do nothing must be confronted with courage and say: “punishes helping people to help themselves” if someone does something to help himself. Those in need of social assistance should be given it in the form of activating social assistance, says the economist. The German welfare state is currently based on the basic assumption that “everyone can do something”