Tino Chrupalla, November 5, 2021, Coal

AfD Kompakt, November 5, 2021.

The plans to move up the withdrawal from coal by about 8 years to 2030 are entirely irresponsible. In terms of energy and economic policy, they send a fatal signal and once again shake the citizens’ trust in the accountability and reliability of politics in Germany. Even a coal withdrawal in the year 2038 would be for the affected regions, yet also for the supply security in Germany, a catastrophe. Moreover, as a result of the withdrawal from coal-fired electricity generation, there threatens a further increase in German electricity prices. The in any case planned elimination of the EEG assessment by the traffic light coalition is, against this background, nothing more than a drop of water on the hot plate.

Instead of going ever more rapidly ahead on the fatal German Sonderweg, the energy policy’s political responsibilities need finally again be put on a reasonable basis. Not unrealistic climate goals, but the justified interests of our country and its citizens need to thereby stand at the center. Instead of moving up the coal withdrawal, in view of the drastically climbing energy prices, the originally agreed upon periods of time need again apply. At the same time need be immediately created the prerequisites for a continued operation of the German nuclear power plants.

 

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Bernd Schattner, November 5, 2021, Agricultural Tax Breaks

AfD Kompakt, November 5, 2021.

The farmers already for 30 years have been very heavily financially burdened by low proceeds for grain and meat. The rising costs for fertilizer and fuel are an additional important cost factor in each yearly balance of the operations. So as to approximately compensate for this financial prejudice, tax breaks [Steurvergünstigungen] for farm diesel and the exemption of farm machinery from the Kfz [motor vehicle] tax are needed and need urgently continue to be maintained. An abolition of these measures would further accelerate the structural transformation and displace foodstuffs production to foreign countries.

On that account, the AfD Bundestag delegation expresses itself as strictly opposed to the demands of the Federal Environmental Office and stands as before at the side of German agriculture.

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Beatrix von Storch, November 4, 2021, Evangelical Church in Germany

AfD Kompakt, November 4, 2021.

Bedford-Strohm confuses cause and effect if he in fact believes that a lack of “coolness” is the reason for the vanishing members. It is plainly just this desperate attempt to surf the wave of the politically correct Zeitgeist that has alienated the faithful from the Evangelical Church.

Who fraternizes with Fridays for Future, SOS traffickers and other leftist-criminal organizations need not wonder over his own obvious failures. Who feels himself drawn to these substitute religions similarly determines for himself the original. The result of the red-green politicization of the Evangelical Church is an alienation of the faithful from their Church leadership: The core of the faith, the Christian message of the life to come, then primarily takes effect when those affected are far, far removed.

The faithful in the communities feel themselves left in the lurch by Zeitgeist preachers like Bedford-Strohm, for whom their belief in climate change appears more important than that in God.

 

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