Die Genehmigung des milliardenschweren Finanzpakets von Union und SPD ist gerade durch den Bundesrat, da veröffentlicht der Bundesrechnungshof (BRH) einen Sonderbericht mit „Maßnahmen zur Stärkung der Einnahmebasis“. Dieser erklärt, an welchen Stellen der Staat noch strukturelle Defizite hat und zukünftig Geld einsparen könnte. Eines der Kernprobleme: Steuerbetrug.
Laut dem Bericht wird der Bundeshaushalt durch Steuerbetrug jährlich mit Verlusten in Milliardenhöhe belastet. Während der BRH deshalb eine Reform der Steuerbetrugsbekämpfung fordert, möchte die Koalition laut Sondierungspapier zunächst beim „großangelegte[n] Sozialleistungsmissbrauch, im Inland sowie durch im Ausland lebende[r] Menschen“ ansetzen.
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Bismark turned private health insurance of the unions into a service by the state to weaken the unions, as well as introducted retirement pensions.
It’s funny that the unions and regular citizens keep that power in the hand of the state instead of organizing it themselves, independend of whatever party is in power.
Another strong, but much less talked about reason for this is Bismarcks conflict with the pope. B did not want to leave the power (control through help, spiritually and materially) to the church.
I can’t speak to that specific situation but I believe power should be held the shortest distance from the people it effects - balanced only by having more power for more people. I imagine health insurance owned and controlled by unions is less powerful than owned and controlled by the government but the distance is shorter. So ideally it would be held by a government to maximize the negotiating power essentially, but if the government is run by incompetent or immoral people (like I’d assert the CDU is) I could see union control being better.