As of: January 20, 2024, 7:00 a.m
By: Hans Moritz
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Hans Moritz, editorial director of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger.
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There is currently talk of de-bureaucratization everywhere.
Why won't this work?
Because we don't want to, because we're too comfortable - our comment on the weekend.
There is a lament that all parties at all levels are singing, and it is currently becoming increasingly louder: We suffer from too much bureaucracy.
The first verse says that it is inhibiting us, blocking housing construction and important infrastructure projects.
In the second verse of the chorale: We must finally de-bureaucratize.
Ideally on a political level that does not affect us.
The real final chord should be: Nothing will change, they are empty promises.
Because we are the bureaucracy ourselves.
How do excessive laws, regulations and requirements come about?
We ultimately call for them.
Because then everything is regulated, there are no loopholes, and the last detail is regulated without complaint.
When politicians complain about excessive bureaucracy, they overlook the fact that it is the parliaments and local councils that make the laws and regulations that regulate everything down to the last detail.
It starts at the municipal level: every development plan is strictly regulatory bureaucracy, every parking space or, more recently, even bicycle parking regulations, every traffic law order, when which vehicles are allowed to use which street and how.
Bureaucracy switches off common sense; it releases us from communicating with other people and from regulating things together based on reason.
It relieves us of the annoying decision to take a step back from ourselves for the benefit of our neighbors on a small scale and the community on a large scale.
In Germany there is an obligation to clear and scatter.
If you slip on a slab of ice, you don't feel upset because you may have worn the wrong footwear.
No, he uses the law to sue the snow-clearing grump on the basis of it.
Courts then issue judgments that further regulate and restrict life with their exemplary effect, such as bans on ringing church bells or allowing cows to graze with bells.
Prime Minister Markus Söder now wants to leave it to the municipalities how they want to manage the number of parking spaces to be created in new buildings.
How otherworldly.
No local council will agree to this only to have to fight the dispute over parked cities and residential areas.
Bureaucracy makes life more convenient and at the same time more complicated.
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