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Criticism of Lindner’s statement on “free mentality”
Christian Lindner (FDP), Federal Minister of Finance, has drawn criticism with negative statements about a successor regulation for the 9-euro ticket. photo
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Finance Minister Lindner drew criticism with his negative statements about the continuation of the 9-euro ticket. The parity welfare association finds clear words.
The chief executive of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband criticized Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) in the discussion about the 9-euro ticket. “People don’t know how to get through the month, people are desperate, and then to speak of a “free mentality” is cheeky,” said Ulrich Schneider on Monday in the RTL/ntv program “Frühstart”.
Lindner had previously rejected financing for a follow-up solution to the 9-euro ticket. The FDP politician said he was not convinced of a “free mentality à la unconditional basic income” in local public transport either.
Lindner had argued that rural people would subsidize cheap local transport. “It would be the task of politics to expand local passenger transport in rural areas and not to say that it would be unfair if one had a bus and the other didn’t,” said Schneider. He also advertised a 365-euro ticket. That is ecologically and socially sensible.