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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He has promised a lot and will not do anything. Everyone can see this from their program:

~100 billion € less taxes from their planned policies (+/-15% depending on which economic institute did the calculation), more money for infrastructure investments, much more money for the army... all allegedly financed by cutting costs caused by immigration and social systems and through expected economic growth. But even if you would cut those to zero (which is unconstitutional...) that still would leave you at ~10% growth needed per year.

All while loudly taking of keeping their beloved debt brake.

How are they planning to do it? Not at all... In that same program they also talk about checking the state finances first when in office. Which is a joke given that all those information is publically available already. It's basically a build in excuse, so once in office they can pretend that the financial situation is -totally unexpected and caused by the former government of course- so much worse than expected, so they are sadly *wink wink* forced to break all their promises.