display
Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - The future of the Hessian debt brake caused a stir at the plenary debate in the Hessian state parliament on Thursday evening.
The left-wing parliamentary group again called for this requirement to limit government debt to be abolished.
"The debt brake was a historical mistake that needs to be corrected," said the financial policy spokesman Jan Schalauske.
With the cancellation of the debt brake, a signal should go out from Hessen to finally enable the necessary investments in schools, childcare, hospitals, local public transport and clean energy supply.
"The black-green state government has admitted with the law on special assets that it has to suspend the debt brake," said Schalauske.
"That means: it has arrived in reality."
In view of the Corona crisis, Hesse created a debt-financed special fund of twelve billion euros on the initiative of the black-green state government.
Since the corona fund is linked to a credit authorization, the voices of black-green initially made it possible to relax the debt brake.
display
The budgetary spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, Erich Heidkamp, called for a debt brake that “deserves its name and can no longer be suspended at will”.
"Without a functioning debt brake, parliaments will never be able to stop the limitless debt, let alone correct it," warned Heidkamp.
That is why the AfD wants the need for a two-thirds majority of the members of the state parliament for deviations from the ban on debt to be included in the Hessian constitution.
"An arbitrarily suspendable debt brake is not."
The CDU MP Michael Ruhl emphasized that his parliamentary group was behind the principle of the debt brake.
The state government will start repaying the loans for the special fund as early as next year.
The FDP budget expert Marion Schardt-Sauer emphasized that limiting new debt would make sense and a question of intergenerational equity.
She pointed out that the debt brake was anchored in the Basic Law.
"There it says very clearly that the budgets of the federal and state governments are to be balanced in principle without income from loans."