German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/64,
pp. 7272-7273.
The government today still says nothing in the last reading
of its draft law of how the planned economy, guaranteed to be highly bureaucratic
and never to be legally implemented gas price caps should be installed. Who receives
money? Which prices prices will be where capped? How will the operative be
implemented? All of this in the first months will be regulated by decree. The draft
law put forward is simply not ready for a decision.
A test question for you all, whether you have even read the
laughably brief business plan contained in a law for the 200 billion euro fund:
How much money does it foresee for the announced December payments? Now, I say
to you: Here is exactly zero euros. The same for the gas price brake, the
electricity price brake and additional support measures: Not a euro. Frau
Esdar, one cannot block what is in fact not in the business plan. That simply
does not work. There is nothing here to block. We have nothing, in any case not
for 2022. And yet the Bundestag shall today agree that 200 billion euros in new
debts shall be stowed in reserves in a purposeless, moreover completely
undefined shadow budget. It would be absurd to bestow upon the government such
a blank check.
The only correct way for such a law would be a 2022 supplementary
budget for the really quite small sum which, as the planned December energy payment,
will in fact be payed out to people and businesses. The Finance Minister – not present
– nevertheless wants to put more than 20 times that in the 2022 budget, which
then brings his twelve month balance of new indebtedness to a round 500 billion
euros. And the Federal Audit Authority, as exactly for years the AfD, has
stated: The accounting trick of the accumulation of reserves is very likely
unconstitutional. – We say: It is unconstitutional.
The 200 billion euros is not required for 2022.Your
appropriation today in the WSF [economic
stabilization fund] serves only to get around the debt brake which at present
is by luck still set aside. What at all is that? On this point also, the Union
is dishonest; since the Grand Coalition still lead by the Union in 2021 found
an additional trick whereby credits only in the year making the credit will accounted
for in the debt brake, which in the Corona time was practically set aside and
today still is. Luckily these tricks are now finally in Karlsruhe. Return to
the law. That goes for all.
Our motion [Drucksache
20/4094] to be voted on today gives to you the opportunity for a careful
budgeting of the required monies. Simply vote for it! Then the people and
businesses who suffer under the present false policy can be assisted. For a
merely symptomatic alleviation with tax money of the world’s dumbest energy
policy, the shadow sums are much too high. Required is the causal aversion [ursächliche Abwenden] from the
existentially dangerous energy emergency. We say this for months; even before
the Ukraine war we have said this. In regards energy themes, finally listen to
the rational voice of the AfD.
Hearty thanks.
Otto Fricke (FDP): I find speeches with lace finish always good!
[trans: tem]
