Martin Reichardt, Value-added Tax on Meat, August 8, 2019

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.

Sebastian Wippel, Election in Saxony, August 5, 2019

Sebastian Wippel

Election in Saxony

AfD Kompakt, August 5, 2019

[Sebastian Wippel is an Alternative für Deutschland member in the Landtag of the eastern German Free State of Saxony, elections for which will be held this coming September 1. He is a police officer and both he and Saxony Minister-president Michael Kretschmer are residents of the city of Görlitz.]

It so happens that the citizens in the constituency of the CDU Minister-president Kretschmer are to be fed on starvation wages. Since 2004, Kretschmer as CDU general secretary has directed the course of the Free State in a decisively false direction. Yet that is not enough: now Kretschmer, with a hasty shut-down of the coal industry, wants to deprive the region of the last good-paying jobs. The Green school children and students of the large cities celebrated by the media appear to Kretschmer to be more important than the old and settled country people. The people of Görlitz will not forget this presumptuous familiarity with the Green Zeitgeist.

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Alexander Gauland, July 26, 2019, Brexit

Alexander Gauland

Brexit

AfD Kompakt, July 26, 2019

Boris Johnson has made clear that the Brexit treaty in its present form is unacceptable to the British. The EU must therefore finally jump over its shadow and do what it always promises: bring people together. It should go to the British and at least re-negotiate the rules for Northern Ireland and so make possible for Great Britain an orderly and dignified exit.

No one can have an interest in Brexit resulting in chaos, with the British leaving the EU in enmity. Great Britain is too important to Europe for that. Brussels must finally accept that a majority of the British in a referendum have declared themselves for an exit. Should the responsible EU politicians not give up their blockade and deny London new negotiations, then is formed the impression that a disorderly Brexit will be allowed so as to terrify other states from also leaving the EU.


[Translated by Todd Martin]