Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz (Greens) has countered allegations that the government would continue to inflate the budget.
It is neither honest nor serious to simply look at the absolute numbers of how the budget has developed over the past ten years, he said on Wednesday during the debate on the draft budget for 2022 in the Stuttgart state parliament.
Stuttgart - "A state budget does not move in a vacuum."
The formal budget volume in the southwest has increased by a good 40 percent since 2012, said Bayaz.
But also the economic output rose in the period by 35 percent, the tax revenue by 33 percent.
"The growing budget is an expression of the successful economic development in this state." A strong state like Baden-Württemberg is dependent on public institutions.
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Left, SPD and Greens need four votes from the CDU or FDP to get their budget through.
Before that there are still a few hurdles.
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The Saxon state parliament passed a law on Thursday to strengthen medical care in the countryside.
In essence, it is about the introduction of a quota for country doctors.
Young women and men are given the opportunity to study medicine outside the numerus clausus if, after completing their specialist training, they work for ten years in an area with a shortage of doctors.
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Unemployment rate in the southwest drops to 3.7 percent
The job market in the southwest continues to recover.
In September, 233,832 people were registered as unemployed in Baden-Württemberg - 13,376 fewer than in August, as the regional directorate of the employment agency announced on Thursday in Stuttgart.
The unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 3.7 percent.
In September a year ago it was 4.6 percent.
Unemployment rate in the southwest drops to 3.7 percent
The draft for the 2022 budget stipulates that the government will not take on any new debts in the next year and will repay almost half a billion euros of the corona loans.
In addition, Grün-Schwarz wants to invest around 915 million euros - the majority of the expenditure will go into political projects that have been defined for a long time.
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