Fdp Against Abolishing Spouse Splitting

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FDP Landeschef Vogt warns against the abolition of spouse splitting and speaks of the "greatest tax increase in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany".What is behind the dispute?Schleswig-Holstein's FDP Landeschef Christopher Vogt has described the abolition of spouse splitting as "the largest tax increase in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany". "The black and red federal government would thus significantly burden many famil…

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The debate about spouse splitting shows exemplarily how far political communication can distance itself from social-historical reality. While cabinet members speak of "fehlan stimuli" and media follow uncritically, it comes from the perspective of why the splitting was introduced at all – and for whom it still works today. An article on political-historical amnesia,...