As if they had learned nothing from the recent economic crises, everyone is now demanding what they normally demand: the Greens a cheap ticket for buses and trains, the Union a higher commuter allowance and a fuel price discount, the SPD higher taxes on “excess profits”. This time the measures are intended to relieve the population because energy prices have risen due to the war Iran increase sharply.
Many of these ideas have just not proven themselves economically. They helped during the Corona crisis and after Russia’s attack on the Ukraine to a large extent also to those who would have managed without government help, which made it unnecessarily expensive. The fuel price discount disproportionately benefited people with above-average incomes and more cars per household, while in the poorest fifth of households not even half have a car. A higher commuter allowance would have a similar effect today.