Martin
Reichardt
Value-added
Tax on Meat
Afd
Kompakt, August 8, 2019
[Martin Reichardt is an Alternative für
Deutschland Bundestag member from the eastern German state of Sachsen-Anhalt
where he is also AfD chairman. A Bundeswehr officer, he is the AfD’s family policy spokesman in the
Bundestag.]
On December
14, 2018, the AfD Bundestag delegation introduced a motion to lower to 7% the
value-added tax [VAT] on children's goods. This would be a first step to
relieve families. For decades is the child and family poverty in Germany
scandalously high. Now the Greens, SPD and CDU want to increase the VAT on a
basic food commodity which will affect those who at the end of the month have not
a penny left over. Families which must buy cheap meat from the discounters are
not being cruel to animals – they simply have no money.
Animal
protection is necessary but must not be to the burden of families and those of
low income. The Greens, SPD and CDU with this demand demonstrate that, in their
politics, families and small pensioners no longer have standing [Stellenwert]. When in committee, I am
happy to advise the relief of families by a reduced VAT. Here can all parties
demonstrate their family-friendliness.
