SPD: Reduce taxes for the masses and make the super-rich pay
The SPD wants to reduce income tax for 95% of the population and tax the super-rich more heavily. This is one of the aims of the main motion for the party conference in December, which the Federal Executive Committee intends to adopt this Monday in Berlin.
The SPD also wants to relax the debt brake, which does not go down well with coalition partner FDP. The Social Democrats are also campaigning for a further increase in the minimum wage and for investments of 100 billion euros per year in infrastructure, digitalization, the restructuring of industry and, last but not least, education.
Chairwoman Saskia Esken, for example, wants to quintuple the funding for the agreed Startchancen program for schools with many socially disadvantaged pupils. "The promise of advancement through education no longer works today," she told the digital media company Table.Media. The federal/state program, which according to the current status should reach around one in ten of the 40,000 schools, is too small in its planned form. "At least half of the schools need this special support," said Esken. "That's ten billion euros per year instead of the two billion euros now planned by the federal and state governments together."
The program is to start in the coming school year. In order to implement programs with the special fund in a targeted manner, the SPD wants to establish a commission made up of federal, state and local authorities.
The party conference will take place from December 8 to 10 in Berlin. On the first and second day, the delegates will elect the party executive committee and its members in rotation. It is likely that the party chairmen Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken will once again run as a dual leadership.
The SPD's proposal to reduce income tax for the majority of the population and increase taxes on the wealthy is a key part of their party conference agenda. During the conference, they also plans to advocate for more funding for education, specifically aiming to quintuple the funding for the Startchancen program for disadvantaged schools, which Esken believes should be extended to at least half of all schools, costing 10 billion euros annually.
Source: www.dpa.com
