There is nothing election campaigners love more than rubber boots and donation pants.
With his announcement to extend the corona aid, SPD chancellor candidate Scholz jumps too short.
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Munich - Olaf Scholz wants to extend the corona aid beyond September 30th. Nobody should "stumble shortly before the rescue," believes the SPD candidate for chancellor. What else should Comrade Finance Minister wear before the election other than donation trousers? During the pandemic, the GroKo was rightly generous, but it is also clear: the clammy state will not be able to compensate the companies and freelancers for the losses forever. And what does “shortly before rescue” actually mean? The coronavirus will stay. And not even Papa Smurf could conjure up hundreds of billions of unlimited aid funds.
More important than ever new financial commitments, which ultimately lead to corona socialism, is now the clear commitment of the parties to a turn in virus policy.
It doesn't work without trust: Anyone who is fighting for survival in an industry that an overly cautious government could soon impose a delta lockdown on, thinks three times whether he should hold out despite the government money.
Gastronomy, the hotel industry, culture and sport must be able to rely on the foreseeable increase in incidences not leading to the next emergency stop.
Otherwise these industries will experience a devastating exodus.
The nanny state must put responsibility back in the hands of its citizens
Citizens and businesses need the signal that now that everyone had a vaccination offer, the nanny state is putting responsibility back in the hands of the citizens, giving them back their constitutionally protected rights, even at the expense of a higher number of illnesses.
This is not cynical, but an attempt to balance the paramount goods of freedom and health protection in the pandemic.
This is the only way to create clarity and incentives.
In business.
And also with many people who, in their own personal risk assessment, are pondering whether a vaccination is worthwhile for them or whether they continue to rely on the state to take care of them.
A comment by Georg Anastasiadis