When it comes to tax policy, Baerbock and Laschet clash in the TV triumph.
The Green Chancellor candidate manages a well-placed hit on the subject of child poverty.
Berlin - It was one of the most controversial topics of the TV triall: tax policy.
In the debate between Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet, SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock, fundamental differences became apparent - especially between the CDU / CSU on the one hand and the SPD and the Greens on the other.
Laschet started with a frontal attack against his opponents.
And then had to take a setback against the Green politician.
The talk round following the Triell broadcast by ntv and RTL recognized Baerbock's superiority in this scene.
RTL Political Director Nikolaus Blome even said: "That was the moment when Laschet stood on the wall."
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Laschet initially attacked Scholz and Baerbock sharply: "It's a social democratic approach, whenever you can, the Greens are also involved in raising taxes," said the Union Chancellor candidate. The tax increase ideas of the SPD and the Greens are "foolish". He is in favor of the complete abolition of the solidarity surcharge and a similar corporate tax rate as in France, for example, so that German companies in the internal market do not migrate.
But a little later it became clear that Baerbock was able to score points on the subject of taxes. Because while Scholz, the high earner would like to burden each other more and Laschet, who rejects tax increases in principle, dueled, the Green politician brought child poverty into play and pleaded for a basic child security. Stronger shoulders should also be subjected to heavier loads. Instead of abolishing the solos, these 10 billion euros would have to be used to lift children out of poverty. Laschet replied: "You help children by helping them, and especially their parents, to get out of Hartz IV." His goal is for a child to be able to exit himself through a good education.
Baerbock then attacked the CDU politician sharply: "If you say that children should get out of the Hartz IV system themselves, sorry, but a child who is two, three, four or even 12 years old will hardly come out of the Hartz -IV system come out.
And then you say, as long as that doesn't work out, the children are unlucky, then they should just go to school without their satchels.
Surely that cannot be your kind of solidarity in our society.
But that is the reality of life for a lot of children, where at the end of the month the mother can no longer afford the birthday present and the child cannot then for the child’s birthday. "
TV triumph before the federal election: Baerbock takes a sharp attack on Laschet - "That was of course a penalty"
Nikolaus Blome said in the RTL round: This is the moment when Armin Laschet got into swimming. “Because his position is that 10 billion solos are cut for the best earners in Germany and then you may not have any more money for the children's satchel.” Baerbock said this was pointed out, but she created a clever picture with it can: "Ten billion for the rich, but no money for the poor, including children, is a position that is almost impossible to defend," said Blome. You saw how Laschet really came under pressure. Moderator Günther Jauch agreed: "That was of course a penalty."
Twitter users also took offense at Laschet's statement.
SPD young politician Dario Schramm commented: “'Children should get out of Hartz IV through education themselves' - Armin Laschet in Triell.
What nonsense, ”and shared a statistic on the difference between non-academic children and academic children in educational advancement.
One user wrote: “A child should get out of Hartz IV alone.
The lazy piece. ”The blog“ Union Watch ”judged:“ No matter what Laschet says, children cannot free themselves from Hartz IV.
Therefore, more services are needed for children. "
Tax policy is already a controversial issue between the CDU and CSU - the abolition of solos
In the run-up to this, the sister parties CDU and CSU had already scrambled over the planned tax policy in the election manifesto. Laschet had announced that he did not see any scope for tax breaks at the moment, while CSU boss Markus Söder had vehemently demanded this. Parts of the opposition then saw a contradiction between Laschet's statements * and the parties' election manifesto.
At the same time, the Union Chancellor candidate calls for the abolition of the solos - which, among other things, the chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), Reiner Hoffmann, sharply criticized: "It is total nonsense to want to abolish solos for top earners too," Hoffmann told the German press agency.
"The state would lack ten billion euros in tax revenue, which is urgently needed for investments."
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CSU boss Markus Söder praises the appearance of Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) at the Triell * of the Chancellor candidates.
Twitter users doubt the statement.
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