German
Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/222, pp. 28173-28174.
Frau
President. Ladies and gentlemen.
We here put
forward three concrete demands for the relief of the citizens and businesses in
this difficult time. We want [Drucksache
19/28450] that part-time work not be subject to the progression reservation
so as to avert additional margins for the affected employees and to avoid
additional tax declarations. We want [Drucksache
19/28448] that fitness facilities may open, since fitness is an elemental
factor for people’s health. And we want [Drucksache
19/27849, 28502] that businesses which, due to the lockdown policy, have
been affected by breakdowns in turnover, can more easily delay payment of the
social insurance contributions. It is much more injurious when businesses go
into bankruptcy, because they can no more pay the contributions, than when
these businesses survive and later pay back the social insurance contributions
owed. We demand that on any contribution of which, due to the lockdown policy,
the payment will be delayed, no sort of interest fall due and therefore no sort
of giving of security be necessary.
As we see it,
we of the AfD ever again submit concrete proposals which can relieve business and
citizens so that as many as possible of these can endure this crisis. It is
completely incomprehensible that all other parties in committee reject relief
like the delay of payment of social contributions for the domestic economy.
Markus Kurth (Greens): Imbecility! There is already all of this!
For such a
demand is reasonable and it is lasting. It perhaps in the short-term costs the
state some money, yet in the long-term produces more economic power and thereby
also more tax revenue.The delayed payment of social contributions is an
investment in the future of Germany as an economic site. All the other parties
here which do not want to invest the couple of millions are, mark well, the
same parties which have no problem expending 750 billion euros of German tax
money for the EU. You have a fully false set of priorities, ladies and
gentlemen.
We now have
already for over a year the lockdown crisis and the proceedings of the Federal
as well the State governments are ever still absolutely bungled. No one knows
how many people are ill with Corona, how many lie in intensive care on account
of Corona, or therein die. Massive restrictions of the basic rights are based
on some fake numbers like the incidence value.
The current
regulations in Germany are absolutely crazy and I am sure: If in a hundred
years someone reads of this, he will laugh over how so crazy it could be. If
one completely healthy wants to buy his clothing not in a supermarket but in
clothing store, then he needs to produce a negative test. Assuming he tests
positive, yet despite that wants the clothing store, then he does three further
tests at various test stations until he has a negative test. By means of the
three positive tests, he increases the incidence value, into which comes three
additional cases.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU-Emmendingen): Yeah, to be happy about that! Just unbelievable! Such stupidity!
If on the way
to the clothing store he now has an accident and on that account must go to
intensive care, he is a Corona intensive care patient and if he dies from the
accident then he is even a Corona death, and this although Corona has nothing
to do with his death or his injury. That, ladies and gentlemen, is absolutely
frivolous.
The only
serious statistics which we have are those for the mortality and the
utilization of intensive care beds. In regards the mortality, in March we were
11 percent under the average mortality of the last five years. The utilization
of intensive care beds is since many months constant at about 20,000 occupied beds.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU-Emmendingen): Where does he live actually? Does he live on the moon?
The Federal
government knows this and it has consequently cancelled orders for 8,500
breathing apparatus.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU-Emmendingen): Does he live on the moon?
Ja, that you do not want to hear; that is quite clear to me.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU-Emmendingen): Because the facts do not agree!
You prefer to
make children’s birthdays into illegal mass assemblies and are now concerned
that every twelfth girl between 15 and 19 years has massive psychic problems on
account of the lockdown.
Stefan Müller (CDU/CSU): Such
rubbish!
Have you at
all considered what you are doing to children who will be tested in groups of
classes, and who then in so public a mass test is the only one to have a
positive test? Who then will treated like a leper in the Middle Ages? What that
does to the psyche of a child, that I wish, truly said, for no one.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU-Emmendingen): Yeah, is it preferable
that all the others shall be infected?
Ja, we know that some members of the governing delegations
earn very well in the crisis and that after the next Bundestag elections the
Greens want to be at the fleshpots.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU-Emmendingen): That is just
shameless, to infect all the students! Scandalous!
Yet while you
here enrich yourselves, you impose all consequences on the people and you are
not ready to care for a little relief.
Show that you are not indifferent to the fate of many long-suffering people and vote for our motions for at least some relief of the people.
Markus Kurth (Greens): That is repulsive, what you are saying!
Many thanks.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU-Emmendingen): The AfD wants that all children be infected in the schools! Fabulous! That needs to be told to the people in Germany!
Markus Kurth (Greens): Ja, such speeches need to be prohibited!
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