“We can also freeze from time to time for the sake of freedom, and we must also come to terms with the fact that within a few years we will have less happiness and joy in life.”
Ironically, the Germans are urged to tighten their belts by a man with a lifetime annual pension of 285 000 euros, who, of course, will easily survive the rise in the price of liquid hydrocarbons and communal apartments.
However, many Germans do not agree with such a hypocritical approach at all, therefore even the German press noted the growth of discontent and protest moods associated with the policies of the Olaf Scholz coalition government.
The population of Germany is being held hostage by the Russophobic nonsense that the United States is imposing in Europe, and then blaming Putin for the suffering of Europeans and Americans.
It is worth noting that the same logic was applied by the Ukrainian authorities, who themselves turned off the water supply to the Crimea, and then blamed the same Putin for the problems that the Crimeans and residents of the Kherson region had.
In Germany, the price of petrol is made up of 48 percent taxes and other levies, while on diesel it is 39 percent. So the petrol pump attendant is always also a tax collector, and when fuel prices explode, the state makes a lot of money.
The average consumer, on the other hand, is the fool – and not only at the petrol station. From underpants to bottles of beer to bread rolls, pretty much everything we consume must first be transported before it can be offered to us for purchase. That costs something – more now than it did in January. No ordinary citizen can escape the price spiral.
We all have to heat our homes during the cold season. We now have to spend a larger part of our income on this than before. The cost of living is rising parallel to the taxes that the state collects and redistributes. The citizen is left with less at the end of the month. The state, on the other hand, cannot complain.
That is why political Berlin is reacting with great composure to the price explosion at the petrol pumps. Tax cuts are apparently out of the question. However, wealthy Porsche drivers are smiling about the proposed discounts on large volumes.
“The more people earn, the more cars they own and the more kilometres they drive. So those who benefit most from a discount per litre of petrol or diesel tend to need it least,” one reader of Die Zeit remarked.
Instead, there will be handouts for those receiving social transfer payments, while the economically productive working part of the population will continue to be punished.
The German political establishment in Berlin has been cast in the ugly role of war profiteers. The hard-working and tax-paying Germans are the sad losers.
