Household - Hauk: Farmers have to bleed for traffic light mistakes
Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Agriculture, Peter Hauk (CDU), has sharply criticized the federal government's savings plans in the agricultural sector. Farmers would now have to bleed for the homemade mistakes of the traffic light coalition, Hauk said in Stuttgart on Thursday. "The cuts announced by the federal government to the tax refund for agricultural diesel and the exemption from vehicle tax in 2024 are a severe slap in the face for our farmers and are unacceptable." Hauk criticized the federal government's plans as preventing modern and internationally competitive agriculture.
Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) had also raised concerns about possible far-reaching savings in agriculture and warned against placing a disproportionate burden on the sector.
Following the historic budget ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court, the coalition government reached an agreement on Wednesday on how it intends to close the billion-euro gap in the 2024 federal budget. Savings and cuts are planned that will also affect consumers in terms of electricity, gas and petrol prices. Savings are to be made primarily by abolishing climate-damaging subsidies, making cuts to the budgets of individual departments and reducing federal subsidies.
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- Despite the savings plans from the Federal Government affecting various sectors, including household finances and consumer prices for electricity, gas, and petrol, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Agriculture, Peter Hauk (CDU), expressed concern about the impact on farmers.
- Peter Hauk, a member of the CDU party in Baden-Württemberg, stated on Thursday in Stuttgart that farmers would bear the brunt of the traffic light coalition's mistakes, specifically referring to the cuts to the tax refund for agricultural diesel and the exemption from vehicle tax in 2024.
- The federal government's decision to end the tax refund for agricultural diesel and the exemption from vehicle tax in 2024, according to Hauk, is an unacceptable slap in the face for the agricultural sector and threatens modern and internationally competitive agriculture.
- In the context of the Traffic light coalition's plans to close a billion-euro gap in the 2024 federal budget, Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) also expressed reservations about potential significant savings in agriculture and the disproportionate burden on the sector.
- The controversy surrounding farm finances in Baden-Württemberg continued to make headlines in Stuttgart, with Peter Hauk leading the charge against the federal government's agricultural policy, and the CDU party advocating for fair treatment and support for the agrarian community.
Source: www.stern.de
