Posted on 12/13/2017 6:08:31 PM PST by Olog-hai
A decision on Wednesday that the Bundestag’s 709 members get a pay raise next June when average wage trends are calculated drew criticism from a tax austerity lobby group as well as the outer edges of the political spectrum.
The Federation of Taxpayers (BdSt), which leans toward supporting businesses, said the planned rise gave the “wrong signal” while Germany remained without a new federal government in the wake of its September 24 election.
The system of automatized adjustments designed to answer criticism of self-service and first practiced in July 2016 gives a newly constituted Bundestag only three months into its new term to decide whether to perpetuate it. The system calls for lawmakers to receive raises at the same rate judges’ salaries are increased.
Wednesday’s majority vote was backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the pro-business liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens. Among the 665 votes cast name-by-name, 505 parliamentarians voted in favor and 152 were against the rises. Eight members abstained. […]
The Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) Stefan Keuter earned a welter of criticism from across the floor when he asked: “Are you not ashamed of yourselves? Automatism is simply a cheek,” he remarked. …
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I got it. A pay increase for me.... but I will sabotage any pay increase for thee.
Sounds like they’re taking lessons from our crooks running DC... The five wealthiest counties in the United States? Those clustered around Washington DC.
Of course they did. After all they have increased Nazi sympathizer Islamics to take over.
They’re a little slow on the uptake, Congress has been doing that regularly.
Four years ago, they voted up a raise...going to around 9,100 Euro per month. I think part of the problem is the lifestyle thing in Berlin. Other than Hamburg, one might speculate Berlin’s trendy stuff would be a problem for some of these guys to afford. What gets me is that you could retire with 20 years in Berlin, and easily make 75,000 Euro.
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