Enrico Komning, August 27, 2020, Mittelstand and Lockdown

AfD Kompakt, August 27, 2020

[Enrico Komning is an AfD Bundestag member from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He is a lawyer and here responds to Bavarian Minister-president Marcus Söder’s call for a second lockdown.]

Herr Söder’s statements are a fatal signal primarily for our Mittelstand economy.

The German Mittelstand now primarily needs stability. The firms must be able to plan their future. That means that the free commerce of goods and services must remain secure, not only but primarily within Europe. The endless threats of new restrictive measures, travel warnings and certainly a second lockdown run counter to every recovery measure for the especially fleeced Mittelstand businesses.

The National Association of the Mittelstand Economy in its recently published urgent memo is expressly agreed that a general workplace infection defense ought not lead to a second lockdown.

We, on the contrary, in the short-term need distinct relaxations of the Corona measures so as to give the air to required breathe to business and the productive industries. A regulatory eradication already now threatens many branches – not just tourism and the restaurant trade. In the mid-term, a targeted Mittelstand strategy is needed which frees the small and mid-sized firms from the choke hold of the concerns and the international speculators. Otherwise, the Mittelstand may die of Corona.   

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Tino Chrupalla, August 25, 2020, State Expenditures Reconsidered

Tino Chrupalla

State Expenditures Reconsidered

AfD Kompakt, August 25, 2020

[Tino Chrupalla is a national chairman of the AfD.]

What has already overtaken businesses and private households in the course of the lockdown crisis is now also affecting the public account: It is sliding into financial distress. Naturally must all efforts of the public sector be undertaken to stabilize the economy and the social state so that those bearing the pain of the lockdown crisis do not pay the bill a second time. The lockdown crisis ought to be a reminder to us to ask which of Germany’s public expenditures to prioritize. If we want to make the economy and the social state strong and crisis-proof, we must re-set the priorities.  We cannot and do not want to afford ideologically based expenditures for the asylum industry, the Brussels bureaucracy and a climate policy hostile to nature and economy. Let us therefore end this money redistribution and make possible tax relief for the middle class and the Mittelstand.

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Stephan Brandner, August 24, 2020, Social Reconstruction

Stephan Brandner

Social Reconstruction

AfD Kompakt, August 24, 2020

[Stephan Brandner is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the eastern German state of Thüringen. He is a lawyer.]

Those in government are using the people’s angst, which they have compounded into panic primarily by their previous recourse to compulsorily financed broadcasting, to enable a social reconstruction according to their own taste; and rejoice that, in face of angst and fear and yet also economic emergency, the resistance of the population is becoming ever less. We must show these people of the old parties, who for years have ruined this country, that we will not allow it and that we will rise up for our rights and also against the ever new gifts of billions to the EU, by going into the street and resisting. Otherwise, the dream of Schäuble, Merkel & Co. may be fulfilled and we may awake in a completely altered society: A society which we never wanted, a society without freedom.

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