Preaching water, drinking wine: This is the way of life that the poet Heinrich Heine attested to the high clergy of his time – and that 180 years later the SPD also claims to have discovered in Christian Lindner. On the one hand, the Federal Finance Minister is demanding strict austerity from the coalition partners in the ongoing budget discussions, said the financial policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Michael Schrodi South German newspaper. At the same time, he presents expensive FDP reform ideas every day, which would lead to a total loss of revenue of 30 billion euros. “Together with the existing budget gap of 25 billion euros, this means that 55 billion euros are missing for next year,” said Schrodi. “That’s what I call having the courage to leave a gap, it doesn’t work that way.”
Federal budget: Lindner’s courage to take a gap – politics
