STORY: (NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS WITHOUT SPEAKER TEXT) Christian Lindner, head of the FDP and Federal Minister of Finance, countered at the Liberals’ Ash Wednesday in Dingolfing: “Ricarda Lang jokes today and says: Yes, if the debt brake is very, very, very, very important to someone “, that’s what she said, it’s very, very, very, very important, then you have to do this and that. Then Lindner has to get money from somewhere else. That’s the introduction to the tax increases. If you’re very, very, much the debt brake is important, yes, Lindner, then get the money from somewhere else. My answer is: Yes, Ricarda, how about making do with the money the state has available? That would be one day too an option, because we already have very high taxes and levies in Germany. One idea could be that politicians’ appetite for spending money is no greater than people’s ability to earn the money. It could also be a concept . N / A sustainability.” // “Everyone is just asking for money, and social, ecological and security policy projects are certainly sensible and I also want them. But we have to internalize one thing in our country again: All social, ecological and security policy in our country has one prerequisite: a Stable economic foundation Economy is not everything, but without a stable economy everything else is just an impossible dream with no prospect of realization.And therefore we must first create the conditions in the economy before we can then decide on social, environmental and military spending. It won’t be any other way.”