The inflation rate is scratching the 8 percent mark.
The rise makes the government nervous.
Above all, the SPD, which was punished by the state voters and wants to defend Lower Saxony in the fall, feels called upon to keep making new promises.
Instead of waiting for the effect of the relief packages, some of which have not yet come into force, your Minister of Social Affairs, Heil, is once again tempting you with more: "climate money" up to the middle class and a citizen's income that could be ten percent above the basic security (Hartz IV).
Although he can quote the coalition agreement for both, it was concluded at a better time.
FDP Finance Minister Lindner must see Heil's impatient advances at the start of a week in which the Bundestag will approve record debts of 240 billion euros as a provocation.
The red partner devalues the household power act for energy flat rate, fuel discount, elimination of the electricity surcharge and all kinds of surcharges for the poor.
Lindner rightly reacts coolly.
Social policy will also have to come to terms with the diminished financial resources.