German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/230, pp. 29581-29582.
Many thanks. – Herr President. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
At first glance, it reads nicely, what is brought in here as
a law from the side of the coalition: The bureaucracy and the various national
regulations on tolls shall be unified at the European level, and the whole
nicely modern speaks: Digital. So far the theory, irrespective that one can
proceed from the experience that the bureaucracy then, when you announce a
deconstruction of bureaucracy, in most cases in the end is enlarged.
Here also arise still other questionable side-effects at the
EU level. Thus the personal data of those in traffic, together with the EU
driver’s license, shall be combined in a data bank for all states. Yet which
personal data is that? Is it address, name and date of birth of the driver, or
perhaps yet more?
It could already be seen in regards the trucking toll in
Germany that a system was established by which all registrations are automatically
controlled. In regards considerations of data protection, it was at the time
naturally assured that the data would be immediately deleted and there would be
no possibility of abuse – other than when for clarification of a violation, a
quick look back at the registration plates could help.
We also have a draft law of the Linke. Here, it is about a
theme – ever the wishful imagination of the leftist utopists – with the
prescription: Back to the Reichsbahn, financed by a pool of an ever fewer number
of automobile drivers. You conceal with the formulation: “Dissolution of the
roads’ financing cycle” [„Aufhebung des Finanzierungskreislaufes
Strasse”]. Do you actually have
people who think through to the end your visions?
Here for once it is about: You want in the future to no
longer use the levies on those using the roads for the completion and new
construction of roads projects. The only thing you still want to do with the
revenue is to finance repairs. The rest shall serve the expansion of public
transportation.
You are thereby not alone – therefore let me dedicate this
theme here to a greater contribution – : Your socialist brothers with skins of
green even announce it in their party program.
Marianne
Schieder (SPD): Absurd!
You are not thereby meant; thereby meant are the colleagues
who still somehow continue to sit in the middle. – With new mobility concepts,
the Greens want by 2030 to reduce by a third personal and delivery
transportation nationwide. Aha. From where then shall the money come for the
mobility pass and cost-free ÖPNV
[public transportation]? Exactly, out of the purses of the ever fewer
automobile drivers. That we cannot allow. That is namely for the greater part
the hard-working employees who have been alloted the automobile. With the AfD,
these people finally have a voice in this parliament. You can laugh: We want a
look at who laughs in the end!
Stefan
Geldhaar (Greens): The worst comedy tonight!
We stand for the retention of affordable automobiles.
Affordable individual transportation is the core of a modern free society. When
the citizens of this country catch on to what you all are doing with them, then
your hype is a thing of the past; that I can guarantee you.
We will abstain from the coalition’s draft law. The draft
law of the Linke – as was said: Even in spirit, the Greens’ program we will
reject.
Many thanks.
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