You don't cheat with the federal budget.
Nevertheless, the traffic light tries by pushing corona loans into the climate fund in order to be able to work with the money later when the strict debt rule in the Basic Law only allows a few additional spending requests.
For this to work, debt is posted to the past year, even though the money is borrowed much later.
The Union has carried out its threat and is suing against the budget law in Karlsruhe.
That was inevitable, an opposition that would have watched this tampering would not be doing its job.
What her attorneys are saying is more than a treat for lawyers, it is the overdue clarification of the old budget principles, which have recently been increasingly disregarded.
This isn't a pill box.
Responsibility for the tax burden on citizens can only be assigned correctly if it is clear which budget is used to finance which expenditure.
This lawsuit deals with core elements of the democratic order.